[swift-evolution] [Pitch] [Stage 2] [Additional] Remove leading dot after closures

[Haravikk]

While I kind of like the idea of effectively rolling my own keywords, my personal preference is to remain explicit about the fact that this is a method of something.
I don't know if I'm against the idea, I just don't think I'd use it.

> On 28 Aug 2016, at 19:15, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> This is a small pitch for stage 2 (or even another Swift release, if the community likes this change).
> 
> We all love the trailing closure plus the ability to execute the next method with another trailing closure.
> 
> someArray.map { … }.filter { … }.flatMap { … }  
> Wouldn’t be great if we could remove the leading . after the trailing closure to get similar syntax to if bool { … } else { … }?
> 
> someArray.map { … } filter { … } flatMap { … }  
> 
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