[swift-evolution] Proposal: Drop parentheses for initalization from tuple

[Daniele Riccardelli]

Hi Basem,

Thank you for the answer. It is indeed a shorthand for unpacking the tuple,
which is nothing new to Swift.

My suggestion is simply to go from this syntax:
let (name, surname) = ("John", "Doe")

to this:
let name, surname = ("John", "Doe")

So it is not about a new feature of the language, simply a small change in
the syntax.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Daniele

2016-05-07 20:49 GMT+01:00 Basem Emara <contact at basememara.com>:

> Hi Daniele, to me at first glance, it looks like a shorthand for creating
> multiple variables. I would expect to try something like this later:
> “print(name); print(surname)”, which of course wouldn’t be the intent.
>
> Basem
>
>
> On May 7, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Daniele Riccardelli via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking that the syntax for initialization from tuple is a bit more
> verbose than needed, i.e. why not simply drop the tuple parentheses and go
> from this :
> *let* (name, surname) =  (*"*John*"*, *"*Doe*"*)
>
> to this:
> *let* name, surname =  (*"*John*"*, *"*Doe*"*)
>
> similarly to what Python does with "unpackable" types:
> name, surname = ("John", "Doe")
>
> This is not a revolution, but if the concern is the trade-off between
> conciseness and readability, I think this way we are being more concise
> while not losing points in readability.
>
> This would of course break existing code, but updating to this syntax
> would be trivial.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniele
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