[swift-evolution] What about a VBA style with Statement?

[Thorsten Seitz]

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I can't see a significant advantage over using the library based approach where the receiver is clearly recognizable and no context problems arise.

-Thorsten 

> Am 14.04.2016 um 19:03 schrieb Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org>:
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>> On Apr 14, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Tang via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> > (in Smalltalk, like in Swift?, if i remember correctly,  ‘self’ is implicitly
>>> > returned in absence of a return value and can be ignored.
>>> I'm a big fan of returning self — its much more useful than void…
>>> But it seems the Swift-community doesn't like method chaining.
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>> I dunno about that... AlamoFire and SwiftyJSON both use it, and are quite popular with rank-and-file Swift programmers.  It's certainly not popular in the Objective-C community (where the syntax doesn't really support it), but it seems like the Swift community may be warming up to it.
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>> I also like the idea of a dedicated method-cascading operator, like what Dart has.  It eliminates the need for a programmer to explicitly remember to 'return self' at the end of a chainable method.  Not sure how well it'd integrate with SE-0047 (@discardableResult) though.
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> Method cascades draft: https://gist.github.com/erica/6794d48d917e2084d6ed
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> deferred to after 3.0
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