> On Oct 20, 2017, at 10:54, Eagle Offshore via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> I really feel like the number of modifiers and decorators and annotations
> etc....has reached the point of illegibility.
>
> <phrase><pronoun>It</pronoun><verb tense="present>is</verb><adverb
> modifies="is"
> purpose="intensifier">really</adverb><adjective>ridiculous</adjective><phrase>
>
> That's what trying to read swift is getting to be like.
>
> Trying to make every single nuance explicit is a fool's errand and is killing
> readability.
Agree that annotations can get unwieldy, but how else are we supposed to
express nuances when the language’s default is wrong for the code in question?
> Also, the choice to discard a result is properly the provenance of the
> caller, not an intrinsic feature of a function.
Was that position argued during the proposal review? I don’t remember... In any
case, I think the “very high bar” we have now for breaking source compatibility
makes it unlikely to change at this point (OTOH, I’m frequently wrong here)
> I'll stop now.
Feel free to voice your concerns... Obviously I can’t promise anyone will agree
or anything, but if you think you have a point that hasn’t already been
discussed, we want to hear it! (Or at least I do... I’m just a random dude on
the internet and don’t “speak for the list” or anything, but that’s been the
general attitude as long as I’ve been hanging out here)
- Dave Sweeris
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