[swift-evolution] Spread Operator as Shorthand for Map

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

Worth noting this can be achieved in Ruby using a shorthand syntax that
turns a symbol into a method:

cars.map(&:make)
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:32 AM Al Skipp via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> On 16 Dec 2015, at 17:20, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> Joe Groff noted syntactic ambiguity caused by omitting $0.  Unless that
> potential ambiguity could be resolved in some way this wouldn’t actually
> work.  It does work if you include $0:
>
> cars.map{$0.make}
>
>
> Hey, we’re back where we started! ; )
>
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