[swift-evolution] Move placement of 'throws' statement

[Russ Bishop]

> On Jan 11, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 10, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Russ Bishop via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 28, 2016, at 8:11 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 28, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>>> I thought there is already a pending proposal on typed throws?
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>>> There was, I vaguely recall that it was by Russ?  I don’t see any open PRs for it.
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>> Hey now, there is no need for name calling ;)
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>>> I’m personally a big fan of typed throws, but I know that John McCall has strong concerns.  I can’t argue that typed throws is a high priority at the moment, but as soon as we start talking about concurrency the topic of a Result type will come back up (for use with futures/async).
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>> I fall firmly in John McCall’s camp on this one. If someone wants to read that part of the thread: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/000958.html <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/000958.html>
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>> Of course if we want to automatically convert a throws function into an awaitable Result then that naturally begs the question of either Result’s error is typed as Error or not. I think I fall into the “as Error” camp here too because Swift’s switch is powerful enough to pattern match on the type fairly nicely but I haven’t thought about it very much.
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>> All that said… if Swift got a macro system Rust’s error-chain seems to have some interesting ideas that avoid a lot of boilerplate.
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> If Swift has a canonical built-in system for reporting an Error, why wouldn't it be used here? Why use casting?
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> — E

I was using shorthand for “struct Result<T> { let error: Error? }” vs “struct Result<T, E: Error> { let error: E? }”… as in I prefer not having a second generic type parameter to denote the error.

Russ



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