[swift-evolution] SE-0084 spinoff: Newlines as item separators

[Vladimir.S]

+1 for this feature.
I don't see any problem with it, just like we all don't see any problem 
with optional semicolon for code lines.
But I don't know if it will be possible(not too hard) to implement.

On 17.05.2016 21:06, Tino Heth wrote:
> [Due to popular demand ;-) in the discussion of SE-0084: Allow trailing
> commas in parameter lists and tuples]
>
> The option to skip semicolons for statements followed by a newline is only
> a tiny convinience, yet it is one of the most favored differences to C (and
> one of the most annoying things to remember when you have to switch from
> Swift to do some coding in Objective-C).
> While lists of statements don't need a special separator character anymore,
> other lists still rely on commas to separate items:
> - method parameters
> - array and dictionary literals
> - tuples
> [anything else?]
>
> SE-0084 targets to make it easier to reorder list elements by allowing an
> additional comma after the last element; afaics, the same can be achieved
> by making all of those commas optional, as long as there is a newline to
> separate the next item (without those newlines, SE-0084 makes less sense as
> well).
>
> This change is not incompatible with SE-0084, but imho it doesn't make much
> sense to combine those features (at least in actual source code).
>
> So, first question:
> What are the downsides of this change? (question zero is "are there any
> other places where comma-separeted lists could be turned into
> newline-separated lists?"...)
>
> Tino
>