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James_Campbell · January 4, 2016, 1:58pm

I was wondering if this should be part of the stdlib

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Erica_Sadun · January 4, 2016, 3:24pm

This idea probably deserves more attention than it's going to get with this pitch for two reasons:

First, the Swift-Evolution list is heavily trafficked and you've given no context in either your subject line or your message about what "then" is and why it would be valuable to the Swift programming language. It is a Cocoapod that introduces "syntactic sugar for Swift initializers", that is extended initialization steps to support Cocoa set-up beyond the Apple-supplied inits. This is the same $0-delimited approach that has evolved spontaneously from a variety of developers.

Second, similar ideas have already been pitched and discussed on-list under the topics of method cascading, extended initialization, and so forth. You can search the Swift Evolution Archies on

Google (use site:The swift-evolution Archives <http://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/> in your search, e.g. Google <Google) or
gmane (e.g. http://search.gmane.org/?query=cascad&author=&group=gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&xP=Zcascad&xFILTERS=Gcomp.lang.swift.evolution---A <http://search.gmane.org/?query=cascad&author=&group=gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&xP=Zcascad&xFILTERS=Gcomp.lang.swift.evolution---A>\)

A proposal on adding Dart-like cascades with Swifter-syntax stalled. Old proposal here: cascade.md · GitHub Bug report here: [SR-160] Proposal to introduce Method Cascading · Issue #42782 · apple/swift · GitHub

The topic appears to be a popular one and well liked. I understand its best timeframe for discussion will be in about a year as it is unlikely to be addressed in Swift 3.0, although you should probably ask an Apple team member rather than a general bystander like myself.

Best regards, -- Erica

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On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:58 AM, James Campbell via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I was wondering if this should be part of the stdlib

Then on CocoaPods.org

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James_Campbell · January 4, 2016, 4:08pm

Cheers Erica. I'll try this again but do it properly this time ;)

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On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Erica Sadun <erica@ericasadun.com> wrote:

This idea probably deserves more attention than it's going to get with
this pitch for two reasons:

First, the Swift-Evolution list is heavily trafficked and you've given no
context in either your subject line or your message about what "then" is
and why it would be valuable to the Swift programming language. It is a
Cocoapod that introduces "syntactic sugar for Swift initializers", that is
extended initialization steps to support Cocoa set-up beyond the
Apple-supplied inits. This is the same $0-delimited approach that has
evolved spontaneously from a variety of developers.

Second, similar ideas have already been pitched and discussed on-list
under the topics of method cascading, extended initialization, and so
forth. You can search the Swift Evolution Archies on

   - Google (use site:The swift-evolution Archives in
   your search, e.g.
   Google
   <Google;
   ) or
   - gmane (e.g.
   http://search.gmane.org/?query=cascad&author=&group=gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&xP=Zcascad&xFILTERS=Gcomp.lang.swift.evolution---A
   )

A proposal on adding Dart-like cascades with Swifter-syntax stalled. Old
proposal here: cascade.md · GitHub Bug
report here: [SR-160] Proposal to introduce Method Cascading · Issue #42782 · apple/swift · GitHub

The topic appears to be a popular one and well liked. I understand its
best timeframe for discussion will be in about a year as it is unlikely to
be addressed in Swift 3.0, although you should probably ask an Apple team
member rather than a general bystander like myself.

Best regards, -- Erica

On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:58 AM, James Campbell via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I was wondering if this should be part of the stdlib

Then on CocoaPods.org

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