[swift-evolution] History and future of Swift's parentheses

[John McCall]

> On Jun 9, 2017, at 2:42 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> My answer to `inout` is to promote it to a full-fledged "storage class" (in C terminology) and allow normal variables to be `inout`.
> This would immediately solve the problems with `inout` being a magical thing in functions, as well as a convenient way of storing "references" (in C++ terminology) to potentially huge inout expressions, not to mention returning an inout from a function, effectively spreading the getter-setter awesomeness to everything else besides properties and subscripts.

C++ implements this idea by being utterly unsafe; Rust implements it by introducing entire new dimensions of language complexity.  Are you proposing one of these in particular, or do you have your own concept?

John.