<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><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div 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;" class=""><div class="">If the library author decides to change the internal name, it's now a source-breaking change for clients. (Alternately, all the existing internal names are now external names, without any thought given to them, which would be just as bad.)</div></div></div></blockquote><div>Imho this is no good argument — you can extend it to ban all labels.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div 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;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">Additionally, there is a hidden(?) feature in Swift that's imho quite cool:</div><div class="">The ability to call a function with a tuple containing the arguments</div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(187, 44, 162);">let</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>args = (<span class="" style="color: rgb(39, 42, 216);">4.0</span>, exponent:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(39, 42, 216);">4.0</span>)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(49, 89, 93);">printPowWithBase<span class="">(</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(79, 129, 135);">args</span><span class="">)</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In this case, you end up with a first parameter without any indication of its role.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div 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;" class="">This feature is likely to get redesigned soon. (It has other problems.)</div></div></blockquote></div>Can you elaborate? I did not encounter many usecases yet, but I think it could be handy to configure a bunch of similar objects — and if it would be possible to capture the parameter tuple inside the called function, this could be forwarded to a function with the same signature easily… (especially, but not only the implementation of super)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tino</div></body></html>