[swift-evolution] commas optional

[swift at lng.la]

I don't really expect this sort of syntactic sugar to be popular enough to make it through swift-evolution, and I don't think it's worth the distraction from more important priorities at this time, but for what it's worth, I've enjoyed this feature in other languages that support it. It plays a small part in making code more focused by eliminating unnecessary syntax.

I could be wrong, but I'm not so sure that this would actually be source breaking. Even if you have something like this:

let points = [
    Point(
        x: 1.0,
        y: 2.0
    ),
    Point(
        x: 3.0,
        y: 4.0
    )
]

Proper implementation of this feature wouldn't suddenly interpret `Point(` as its own element.

Jarod

On Oct 12, 2017, 12:23 -0700, Josh Parmenter via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org>, wrote:
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> On Oct 12, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Kelvin Ma via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org<mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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> a semicolon is a purely syntactic delimiter, the comma on the other hand corresponds to physical elements in a collection. I think the two are more different than you suggest.
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> I very much agree^
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> Josh
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