[swift-evolution] Then Support

[James Campbell]

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

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Erica Sadun <erica at 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:https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/ in
>    your search, e.g.
>    https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cascad+site:https:%2F%2Flists.swift.org%2Fpipermail%2Fswift-evolution%2F
>    <https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cascad+site:https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/>
>    ) 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: https://gist.github.com/erica/eb32feb22ba99629285a Bug
> report here: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-160
>
> 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 at swift.org> wrote:
>
> I was wondering if this should be part of the stdlib
>
> https://cocoapods.org/pods/Then
>
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