[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0097: Normalizing naming for "negative" attributes

Cheyo Ximenez cheyo at masters3d.com
Sat May 28 14:21:02 CDT 2016


Are you talking about writing a proposal for @escaping or @once after it becomes feasible? 
I haven't seen a proposal for making `noescape` the default. Do you think that is with in the swift 3 scope and goal of source braking changes?

This is where is I saw this first. 

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0073-noescape-once.md

> On May 28, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Trent Nadeau <tanadeau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with Jose. I especially like the idea of making `@noescape` the default with a new `@escaping` attribute. As I believed was mentioned in an earlier review, this would also make the proposed `@noescape(once)` just be `@once`. I'd be happy to write the proposal for that rename.
> 
>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Jose Cheyo Jimenez via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> >       * What is your evaluation of the proposal?
>> -1.  noreturn is a term of art that is googable, renaming will make it obscure imo specially since it is not that common in iOS code.
>> If the core team were to keep `noreturn` then `nonscaping` will be weird,
>> but then if `noescape` became the default then (the non negative ;-) `escaping` would make sense.
>> 
>> >       * Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?
>> 
>> no.
>> 
>> >       * Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?
>> 
>> no.
>> 
>> >       * If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?
>> 
>> n/a
>> 
>> >       * How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?
>> 
>> read the thread.
>> 
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