[swift-evolution] Initialiser Helper

[L. Mihalkovic]

-1 would not miss it if it never made it to the language. 

Regards
(From mobile)

> On May 23, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> You might be interested in taking a look at my proposal for partial initializers https://github.com/anandabits/swift-evolution/blob/partial-initializers/proposals/NNNN-partial-initializers.md
> 
> This proposal was tabled for Swift 3 but I hope to revisit the topic of improving initializers in when we ramp up Swift 4.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On May 23, 2016, at 8:24 AM, James Campbell via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I would like to be able to use functions to help me initilise a class or struct so I can break down a init into seperate methods, like so:
>> 
>> struct Person {
>> 
>> let age: Int
>> 
>> init (json: Dictionary) {
>> // lots of code
>> 
>> age = json["age"]
>> }
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> This can become un-wieldly, so I would love to be able to do this:
>> 
>> 
>> struct Person {
>> 
>> let age: Int
>> 
>> init (json: Dictionary) {
>> // lots of code
>> 
>> age = getAge(json)
>> }
>> 
>> private func getAge(json: Dictionary) -> Int {
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> }
>> ___________________________________
>> 
>> James⎥
>> 
>> james at supmenow.com⎥supmenow.com
>> 
>> Sup
>> 
>> Runway East
>> 
>> 
>> 10 Finsbury Square
>> 
>> London
>> 
>> 
>> EC2A 1AF 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> swift-evolution mailing list
>> swift-evolution at swift.org
>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
> _______________________________________________
> swift-evolution mailing list
> swift-evolution at swift.org
> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/attachments/20160523/cba64ba3/attachment.html>