[swift-evolution] [swift-dev] SE-0047 - Defaulting non-Void functions so they warn on unused results

[Erica Sadun]

> On Oct 31, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 30, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Robert Widmann via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> If the methods return a reference to self it indicates that you should probably just chain expressions together rather than using a big wall of statements (Smalltalk encourages the same pattern, funnily enough).
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> Smalltalk specifically has builtin syntax for method cascades, which seem to me like a nicer language-level solution to chaining method calls without requiring them to be manually defined in a "builder pattern" style.
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> -Joe

I hope we'll see method chaining in 4 phase 2

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