I'm writing my review inline to this one:

> On 6 Apr 2017, at 02:27, Tony Allevato via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 4:56 PM Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution 
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>> Hello Swift community,
>> 
>> The second review of SE-0161 "Smart KeyPaths: Better Key-Value Coding for 
>> Swift" begins now and runs through April 9, 2017. The revised proposal is 
>> available here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0161-key-paths.md
>> The core team’s feedback from the first review of this proposal can be 
>> viewed at:
>> 
>> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution-announce/2017-April/000342.html
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> Full on +1 now. Thank you for reverting the heavy syntax from the previous 
> revision. This makes the feature much more usable, and the future alignment 
> with unbound function references will be welcome in terms of consistency.

I'm also +1 on this new revision.

> I guess I'll throw out my own color for the shed:  Was :: already considered 
> as well? It at least has some precedent in C++ and later Java for similar 
> purposes, and it's not currently an operator in the language. We could have:

I proposed it during discussion. He only counter that I heard was that it was 
potentially reserved for name-spacing.

>     Person.foo // a reference to Person's static property foo
>     Person::foo // a keypath to Person's instance property foo
> 
> Then, for SE-0042:
> 
>     Person::someFunction // a function reference of type (Person, ...other 
> args...) -> Result 
> 
> But that might make the implied case look strange. Would we have to have this?
> 
>     print(luke[keyPath: ::.friends[0].name])
> Without the period after the "::", it's inconsistent with other type 
> inference sites, but with it, it's kind of ugly.
> 
> That being said, if the backslash ends up being the operator of record for 
> this feature because other options would be poor choices for other reasons, 
> I'm ok with that.

Same, I have a small preference for :: but I'd be ok with backslash.

> My feedback on the rest of the proposal review bullets is the same as before; 
> I won't repeat it here.
> 
>> Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to 
>> Swift?
Yes!!

>> Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?
Yep!

>> If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do 
>> you feel that this proposal compares to those?
Nope.

>> How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or 
>> an in-depth study?
In depth study.

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>> -Doug
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