> Le 9 juin 2017 à 17:12, Gor Gyolchanyan via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> So I wonder if any of you have had any thoughts about what Swift's 
>> parentheses-related future (or evolutionary baggage) will be?
>> 
> 
> I really wish swift used the concept of tuples **exclusively** for all 
> purposes that involve parentheses, as well as dividing tuples into two 
> categories:
> - Bare tuples, which do not have labels.
> - Rich tuples, which do.
> As a consequence, here's a list of statements that would become true:
> - All functions take exactly one parameter, which is a tuple.
> - All closures (a.k.a. function pointers) take exactly one parameter, which 
> is a bare tuple.
> - All functions return exactly one parameter, which is a tuple.
> - Pattern matching is done on a single bare tuple using a single bare tuple 
> pattern.
> 
> The currently ongoing proposal to make a single-element tuple auto-flatten 
> would work extremely well with this idea, by making all these changes 
> completely backward-compatible.

If I have well understood, Swift has evolved away from this.

If what you describe were true, added to the fact that there is no such thing 
as a one-element tuple in the language, then (A,B) -> C and ((A, B)) -> C could 
not be distinguished, for the simple reason that ((A, B)) -> C could not be 
defined.

For ((A, B)) -> C to be defined, we'd need a function that takes exactly one 
parameter, which is a tuple (your idea), whose single element is a tuple (oops, 
there is no single-valued tuples).

No opinion here, just they way I have understood recent Swift history.
Gwendal

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