[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Automating Partial Application via Wildcards

[David Hart]

I’ve started a discussion on that topic. Could you bring some input to help me understand the problem in detail?

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160201/009049.html

> On 04 Feb 2016, at 01:06, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 3, 2016, at 3:51 PM, David Hart <david at hartbit.com> wrote:
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>>> On 03 Feb 2016, at 01:34, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> Ultimately, I think we want argument labels to be part of the name, not half-part-of-the-name-half-part-of-the-type like they are today.
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>> I'd really love for labels to be part-of-the-name only. Is it worth starting a proposition for that for the 3.0 time frame?
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> Yeah, it's worth discussion, though I don't know that we have bandwidth to get all the way there this year. This part of the type checker is deep in technical debt. You might reach out to Chris Willmore, who's been exploring this space internally.
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> -Joe