<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Quite quickly: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I favor the proposal, but not for its stated reasons.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In isolation it’s not a big deal to have implicit-self or to not have implicit-self. It does offer real conveniences, albeit ones that are IMHO rather small-and-petty.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Given that, I think implicit self isn’t worth having if it gets in the way of higher-value features, and at least to my eyes that’s already happening.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Consider that both the "method-chaining" and the “introduce-new-scope-with-new-self” proposals have, to my read, stalled due to the apparent lack of any suitable syntax for them that’s:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- concise enough to be useful</div><div class="">- unambiguous enough to be implementable-and-usable</div><div class="">- in-line with / behaving-analogously-to the rest of the language</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…with the concise syntax ideas being ambiguous largely due to issues either caused-by or made substantially-more-difficult due to implicit-self. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I could be mischaracterizing the issues those proposals encountered — in which case I apologize — but even so, this kind of consideration is why I’d be in favor of dropping implicit-self; I suspect it either complicates or rules-out too many other useful things to really "pay it’s own way".</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 16, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Swift community,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">The review of “Require self for accessing instance members” begins now and runs through Sunday, December 20th. The proposal is available here:</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0009-require-self-for-accessing-instance-members.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0009-require-self-for-accessing-instance-members.md</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All reviews should be sent to the swift-evolution mailing list at</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to the review manager.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What goes into a review?</div><div class=""><br class="">The goal of the review process is to improve the proposal under review through constructive criticism and, eventually, determine the direction of Swift. When writing your review, here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* If you have you used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?<br class=""></div><br class=""></div><div class="">More information about the Swift evolution process is available at</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cheers,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Doug Gregor</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Review Manager</div></div>
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