<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">It's probably better at this point for me to collect my thoughts and summarize where I am at.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/eb32feb22ba99629285a" class="">https://gist.github.com/erica/eb32feb22ba99629285a</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please feel free to comment on-list about this proposal (github does not forward comment alerts) and</div><div class="">then I will start a new list thread as a Proposal rather than as a Request for Discussion.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 6, 2015, at 12:45 PM, ilya <<a href="mailto:ilya.nikokoshev@gmail.com" class="">ilya.nikokoshev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sorry, did I misunderstand the question? <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did you asked whether my definition will work for immutable value types? </div><div class="">If that's the question, the answer is still yes, the link has an example :) </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Erica Sadun <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:erica@ericasadun.com" target="_blank" class="">erica@ericasadun.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">I was specifically referring to value types. I apologize for not being clearer.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div></font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 6, 2015, at 12:42 PM, ilya <<a href="mailto:ilya.nikokoshev@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">ilya.nikokoshev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Yes, it works for immutable objects with the correct definition, see the playground contents at <a href="https://github.com/ilyannn/iOS-Swift-Materials/blob/master/Playgrounds/Configure.playground/Contents.swift" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/ilyannn/iOS-Swift-Materials/blob/master/Playgrounds/Configure.playground/Contents.swift</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Erica Sadun <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:erica@ericasadun.com" target="_blank" class="">erica@ericasadun.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">I have developed something similar as well (<a href="http://ericasadun.com/2015/11/15/speeding-up-swift-playgrounds-with-closure-initialization-swiftlang/" target="_blank" class="">http://ericasadun.com/2015/11/15/speeding-up-swift-playgrounds-with-closure-initialization-swiftlang/</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is yours capable of handling enums and structs that would otherwise be let after declaration because mine is not.</div><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></font></span><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Dec 5, 2015, at 5:16 PM, ilya via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">> PROBLEM: With many Apple-supplied classes, typical initializers fail to fully set up an instance for use. Here's one example: ...<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FWIW, I created a configuration operator more then a year ago, and use it in all of my Swift projects:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">let task = NSTask() +=+ {</div><div class=""> $0.launchPath = "/usr/bin/mdfind"</div><div class=""> $0.arguments = ["kMDItemDisplayName == *.playground"]</div><div class=""> $0.standardOutput = pipe</div><div class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note you can also use the configured object in the rhs:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">let questionLabel = UILabel() +=+ {</div><div class=""> $0.textAlignment = .Center</div><div class=""> $0.font = UIFont(name:"DnealianManuscript", size: 72)</div><div class=""> $0.text = currentQuestion.questionText</div><div class=""> $0.numberOfLines = 0</div></div><div class=""> view.addSubview($0)</div><div class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">This $0. certainly looks ugly and it would be great to be able to simplify this. I don't llike the following much though (dot-syntax can be ambiguos here, and using simply a method name is even worse):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">let questionLabel = UILabel() +=+ {</div><div class=""> .textAlignment = .Center</div><div class=""> .font = UIFont(name:"DnealianManuscript", size: 72)</div><div class=""> .text = currentQuestion.questionText</div><div class=""> .numberOfLines = 0</div><div class=""> view.addSubview($0)</div><div class="">}</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually I would be happy with something like</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">let questionLabel = UILabel() .{</div><div class=""> ..textAlignment = .Center</div><div class=""> ..font = UIFont(name:"DnealianManuscript", size: 72)</div><div class=""> ..text = currentQuestion.questionText</div><div class=""> ..numberOfLines = 0</div><div class=""> view.addSubview($0)</div><div class="">}</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other thoughts?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div></div>
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