<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><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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="">using more generally useful language features I think we are going to eventually want for argument forwarding and compile-time metaprogramming anyway.</span></div></blockquote></div>So how about just delaying everything for a while?<div class="">Imho there is no need to change the init-syntax overhasty, and afaics, this is a huge piece of work compared to other proposals.</div><div class="">It is much easier to use a little script that turns</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">let</span> value: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #703daa" class="">Int</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #008400" class="">//=42</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(112, 61, 170);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">var</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> x: </span>Float?//!</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class="">into</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">let</span> value: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #703daa" class="">Int</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #008400" class="">//=42</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(112, 61, 170);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(187, 44, 162);" class="">var</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> x: </span>Float?//!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">init</span>(value: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #703daa" class="">Int</span> = <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">42</span>, x: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #703daa" class="">Float</span>) {</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">self</span>.<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">value</span> = value</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">self</span>.<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">x</span> = x</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">}</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="">Nothing else can be as flexible and easy to understand at the same time, and the language itself can stay as it is until a convincing solution emerges.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tino</div></body></html>