> On Apr 6, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
> I agree, there's an analogy between strings and key paths, and in that
> regards the single quote would make sense. I would not complain.
The only analogy between strings and key-paths is that the existing Cocoa APIs
for key-paths use strings. That’s not an analogy to hang language syntax on,
because it’s relevance will fade quickly.
The core team discussed single quotes, and decided that we want to save them
for something in the string/character realm.
- Doug
>
>
>> On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Sean Heber via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> That's an interesting point. While `\` alone seems acceptable, I think
>>>> it's unfortunate that we'll have `(\...)` and `\(...)` both in the
>>>> language.
>>>> Can we maybe consider instead:
>>>>
>>>> let firstFriendsNameKeyPath = \Person.friends[0].name\
>>>
>>> 'Single quotes' (i.e. U+0027 APOSTROPHE) are available AFAIK:
>>>
>>> // Create a key path and use it
>>> let firstFriendsNameKeyPath = 'Person.friends[0].name'
>>> luke[keyPath: firstFriendsNameKeyPath] // "Han Solo"
>>>
>>> // or equivalently, with type inferred from context
>>> luke[keyPath: '.friends[0].name'] // "Han Solo"
>>>
>>> // [SE-0042][SR-3550] Unapplied method references
>>> 'String.lowercased()' // (String) -> String
>>> 'String.lowercased(with:)' // (String, Locale?) -> String
>>>
>>> Unlike the Lisp-style backtick, an apostrophe would appear on *both* ends
>>> of the key path (or method reference).
>>
>> For what it’s worth, I much rather prefer this approach and was going to
>> suggest it today. In Objective-C, keypaths were just strings so by using a
>> single tick, they still look *almost* like strings, but now they’re safe and
>> checked by the compiler - magical.
>>
>> l8r
>> Sean
>>
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