[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0046 Establish consistent label behavior across all parameters including first labels

[Daniel Steinberg]

+1

I am a big fan of this proposal.

In a function or method that has more than one parameter, I strongly favor the consistent use of labels.

For a function or method that has a single parameter, I don’t care whether we standardize on a label being required or not. It wouldn’t bother me that a function with a single parameter wouldn’t require a label for that parameter while an init with a single parameter would. I mention this because one of the reasons given for no label on the first parameter was that half of the functions in an audit had zero or one parameter. It is important to me that a function with multiple parameters requires labels for all of them.

As an aside, once we have this consistency, I would like guidance from Apple and support from Xcode on how to format these method definitions and calls if we place them on multiple lines (each parameter on a separate line). In Obj-C we lined up the colons, in Swift should we line up the colons, the first letter of the parameter label, something else? It’s not that I care what we choose, but it would be nice to have a consistent format that is supported by Xcode. Currently, if we indent in a way other than is supported by Xcode, subsequent lines are indented awkwardly.

Thanks,

Daniel





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