[swift-evolution] Opt-out for first unnamed parameter instead of opt-in

[Howard Lovatt]

+1 from me. As an aside: there is a lot of discussion about this sort of
thing in the API guideline threads.

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016, Vanderlei Martinelli via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> The “send” button was pressed before I finish the message, I’m sorry.
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> Continuing:
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> With
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> func myOtherMethod(_ something: AnyObject)
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> Regards,
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> -Van
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> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Vanderlei Martinelli <
> vmartinelli at alecrim.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vmartinelli at alecrim.com');>> wrote:
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>> Hello.
>>
>> I think this was discussed before somewhere and I do not know what the
>> conclusion was, but since we have this in the documentation:
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>> func addSubview(_ view: UIView)
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>> And we have to write this:
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>> func addSubview(view: UIView)
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>> Why we can not stay with the first one that is more consistent? The
>> impact is to replace declarations like:
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>> func myMethod(something something: AnyObject)
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>> With
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>> func myMethod(something: AnyObject)
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>> And replace:
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>> func myOtherMethod(something: AnyObject)
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>> With
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>> func myOtherMethod(_ somethings: AnyObject)
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>>
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-- 
  -- Howard.
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