> On 5 May 2017, at 12:27, Félix Cloutier via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why?
Not trying to be smart, but the reasoning is in Robert’s proposal: >> Their inclusion in the language complicates every part of the compiler >> stack, uses a syntax that can be confused for type annotations >> (https://twitter.com/CodaFi_/status/860246169854894081), contradicts the >> goals of earlier SE's (see SE-0060), and makes non-sensical patterns >> possible in surprising places. Robert, maybe you could include some detail about how this feature is complicating the compiler stack, and what will be improved by it’s removal? ==== That being said, I’m all for you guys making your lives easier at the cost of something we shouldn’t be using in the first place… Tony ---------- Tony Arnold +61 411 268 532 http://thecocoabots.com/ ABN: 14831833541 _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
