[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0029 Remove implicit tuple splat behavior from function applications

[Alex Hoppen]

+1 for removing implicit tuple splat.

I think this is a rarely used feature and would fit well in the Swift 3 goal of cleaning up the type system. I believe this would also solve some ambiguities that, IMO, cannot be properly solved, e.g.

func f(x: Any) {
  print("Any")
}

func f(a: Int, _ b: Int) {
  print("Int, Int")
}


f(3,4) // Currently resolved as f(Int, Int)

let a = (3,4)
f(a) // Currently resolved as f(Int, Int)

f(a as Any) // Currently resolved as f(Any)

f((3,4)) // Currently ambigous expression

If tuple splatting is not remove, I think that there should be a consistent solution to resolving ambiguity in the example provided above (in particular I think that there shouldn’t be a difference between f(a) and f((3,4)). I already tried to solve this issue but am not going to put more effort into it until this proposal is decided.

- Alex

> On 05 Feb 2016, at 19:12, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
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