[swift-evolution] Remove Failable Initializers

[James Campbell]

This is my draft proposal.

https://github.com/jcampbell05/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0045-remove-falliable-initilizer.md

Let me know your thoughts.

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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Tino Heth <2th at gmx.de> wrote:

> +1
> Without "try?", it would be really inconvenient to not have "init?" — but
> failable initializers as they are now are somewhat odd, because they are
> half-function and half-procedure:
> Regular init-methods have no return, so you can basically think of them as
> a configuration that is called on an allocated object.
> This isn't true anymore for "init?", as it not only it turns a
> "void-function" into something that returns an optional, but also doesn't
> explicitly model the non-nil case (there is no "return self").
> Replacing this mechanism with an error would actually make initializers
> more method-like, and less special.
>
> Tino
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