[swift-evolution] [pitch] Eliminate the "T1 -> T2" syntax, require "(T1) -> T2"

[Alan Skipp]

A quick grep showed about 50 cases of using T1 -> T2 in my current project. Not a huge amount, but not tiny either. It wouldn’t be a completely dreadful change to make, just irritating having to add superfluous syntactical appendages to pacify the computer.

> On 20 Apr 2016, at 00:28, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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> on Tue Apr 19 2016, Alan Skipp <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> 
> > I’d place the ability to omit parenthesises for single args in the same category
> > as being able to omit `self` when accessing properties. They are small
> > conveniences that make a large difference to an entire codebase.
> 
> Care to back that up with some measurements?  Take one of your projects
> and find the instances of “[^) ] *->”
> 
> How many places in the code are affected, and how much worse is the result?
> 
> Here's one data point: including a small handful of false positives, I found 74 results in a project with 33 Swift files.
> 
> "How much worse" is hard to answer. It certainly wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to add parens, but I'm not particularly compelled by the pro-() arguments in this thread.
> 
> Jacob

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