<div dir="ltr">I'm not sure how I feel about this, but in either case, why limit it to default parameters? It's useful in other situations, too.<div><br></div><div>Take this for example:</div><div>struct Foo {</div><div> let bar: String</div><div> let bas: Int</div><div> let baz: Double</div><div> init(self.bar: String, self.bas: Int, bax: Int) {</div><div> self.baz = Double(bax)</div><div> }</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>where the need to say</div><div><br></div><div>self.bar = bar</div><div>self.bas = bas</div><div><br></div><div>is now avoided.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM Tal Atlas <<a href="mailto:me@tal.by">me@tal.by</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">There’s lots of boilerplate of initializing structs with stored properties and initializer parameters. I’d like to create a syntax for alleviating that in the 90% case.<div><br></div><div>```swift</div><div><div>struct Foo {</div><div> let bar: String</div><div> let baz: Int</div><div><br></div><div> init(self.bar: String = "default", counter self.baz: Int) {</div><div> }</div><div>}</div></div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div>This would be identical to:</div><div>```swift</div><div><div>struct Foo {</div><div> let bar: String</div><div> let baz: Int</div><div><br></div><div> init(bar: String = "default", counter baz: Int) {</div><div> self.bar = bar</div><div> self.baz = baz</div><div> }</div><div>}</div></div><div>```</div></div>
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</blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dan Appel<br></div></div></div>