SE-0341: Opaque Parameter Declarations

[Tino]

I somehow got reminded on something that has been posted long ago:

@Chris_Lattner

If you’re into analogies, I see features like the generics improvements, concurrency model, ownership system, macro system, ABI stability, new frameworks, and other large scale efforts as the “bricks" that make up the house of Swift. In that analogy, smaller proposals are “mortar” that fills in the cracks between the bricks. If we add too much mortar too early on, we run the risk of the house of Swift being built out of mortar, or of not being able to fit the bricks into the right places. That would be very bad, given that we all want the house of Swift to be strong and beautiful over the long term.

Staying in this analogy, I lately got a strong feeling that there are some bricks which Core does not like anymore, but instead of searching or creating new stones, they try to reshape everything with lots of mortar…

I'm not opposing this particular proposal and don't think it will change Swift significantly, but small things add up, and it looks unavoidable that the language becomes more and more complex and less elegant :-(.