[swift-evolution] SE-0105: Removing Where Clauses from For-In Loops

[Xiaodi Wu]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 6:37 AM, William Shipley <wjs at mac.com> wrote:

> On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:04 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not a practitioner of 80-character line limits, I take it?
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> I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t just let Xcode do the wrapping for
> most cases. I’ll add newlines if I think it adds to clarity, but in general
> I don’t want to code like i’m still on a Wyse WY-50.
>

Of course, to each their own style--I certainly wouldn't want Swift to
force everyone to write lines of certain lengths. But 80-character lines is
a common style, and I would say that a corollary of "to each their own" is
that Swift's grammar should be usable and useful whether or not you adhere
to such style choices.

If the chief advantage of `where` is that it (quoting someone above) allows
one to "understand as much as possible about the control flow of the loop
from a single line of code," then we ought perhaps to question its
appropriateness when the majority of its benefits [by which I mean, based
on your examples and Sean's, more than half of the instances in which it is
used] cannot be realized in a very common coding style.
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