[swift-evolution] Method cascading (was Re: Request for Discussion: Setup closures)

[Matthew Johnson]

> My brief opinion about this:
> 
> - Doing something along this lines someday could be interesting.
> - This is a pure syntactic extension.
> - We have lots of other problems to solve (e.g. making the existing core feature set great), and limited bandwidth.
> - I’d recommend deferring work on this until after Swift 3 is winding down.
> 

That's pretty much how I feel as well.  It's not a bad idea but there are more important things to focus on right now with a lot bigger payoffs.

Chris, do you think this could be implemented as a macro in a hypothetical post-3.0 version of Swift? 

Matthew