<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 13, 2015, at 7:03 AM, ilya <<a href="mailto:ilya.nikokoshev@gmail.com" class="">ilya.nikokoshev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">(1) Isn't using a class function just one more symbol?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No, a class/static function is not the same as an initializer. e.g., a class function cannot assign to a let ivar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">(2) Wouldn't this syntax be more logical:</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">Key {</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">init(forRSA: Void) { /* */ }</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">}</span><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">Key(forRSA:)</span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe. The trailing colon gives me some anxiety; I feel like it wants something to follow it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>