> On 27 Feb 2017, at 19:09, Jose Cheyo Jimenez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Haravikk <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 27 Feb 2017, at 17:10, Jose Cheyo Jimenez via swift-evolution
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> On Feb 26, 2017, at 9:25 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I suggest to take a look at the topics "Variadics as an Attribute" and
>>>> "array splatting for variadic parameters" and
>>>> https://github.com/Haravikk/swift-evolution/blob/a13dc03d6a8c76b25a30710d70cbadc1eb31b3cd/proposals/nnnn-variadics-as-attribute.md
>>>>
>>>> <https://github.com/Haravikk/swift-evolution/blob/a13dc03d6a8c76b25a30710d70cbadc1eb31b3cd/proposals/nnnn-variadics-as-attribute.md>.
>>>>
>>>> This is basically the other way round (arrays would accept variadic
>>>> arguments), but it has the same effect — and more:
>>>> You get rid of the odd "…" type, and it's also possible to use this with
>>>> types besides array (set, iterator….)
>>> I agree with getting rid of the Type... because we could use ... in slicing
>>> (see String manifesto). Why must it be an attribute and not just "*" ? The
>>> advantage I see is that this will play great in also deconstructing
>>> collection like things like Array, Slice and Tuple. This is already
>>> familiar to python and ruby users.
>>
>> Part of the aim is to avoid less easily discovered custom syntax; the point
>> of the proposal is that there's no need for a special syntax just to support
>> variadics as attributes already exist, plus they're more descriptive about
>> what they do and easy to look-up.
>
>
> These is very unfortunate as a solution for “spreading” a collection or tuple
> so that It can be applied to function taking a variadic.
> It makes sense on the declaration site but not on the call site.
>
> someFunc(@nonVariadic [1])
> someFunc(@variadic [1])
These are only required in the case that a function accepts arguments of type
Any; since both the array itself, and its contents are valid example of Any.
This isn't the case if the variadic is on any other type.
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