Kevin Ballard wrote:
I do not support the addition of Either. As far as I am aware, the only
compelling argument in favor of an Either type is "because Haskell has
one", but I believe it's commonly recognized that Haskell's Either is
not particularly good. It's a weird name for results (which Result
covers), and for other cases it's usually better just to define your own
two-variant enum anyway. Rust provides some evidence in favor of this,
as this was the rationale for why Rust has a Result<T,E> but no Either,
and it turns out there has been no need to add an Either.
I could not agree more. Either is a weird name, and trying to decipher the underlying meaning of 'left' and 'right' is maddening.
Result<T> or Result<T,E> would make a lot more sense for Swift.