<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="">I’d recommend you read <a href="http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/the_bootstrapped_compiler_and_the_damage_done" class="">http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/the_bootstrapped_compiler_and_the_damage_done</a>, which has a number of rebuttals to what you’ve said below.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 19, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Amir Michail 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="">Compiler code is probably more typical of what most programmers write than library code and so would be ideal for suggesting further language evolution ideas.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>