> On 22 Feb 2017, at 07:05, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote:
>
> Compound name syntax — foo(_:), foo(bar:), foo(bar:baz:) — is used to
> disambiguate references to functions. (You might've used it inside a
> #selector expression.) But there's currently no compound name for a function
> with no arguments.
>
> func foo() {} // no compound syntax for this one :(
> func foo(_ bar: Int) {} // foo(_:)
> func foo(bar: Int) {} // foo(bar:)
> func foo(bar: String, baz: Double) {} // foo(bar:baz:)
>
> Given these four functions, only the first one has no compound name syntax.
> And the simple reference "let myfn = foo" is ambiguous because it could refer
> to any of the four. A workaround is to specify a contextual type, e.g. "let
> myfn = foo as () -> Void".
>
> I filed SR-3550 <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-3550> for this a while ago,
> and there was some discussion in JIRA about it. I'd like to continue
> exploring solutions here and then write up a formal proposal.
Would the following be an option?
foo() // Function call expression.
`foo()` // Function reference (using backticks).
-- Ben
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