<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 22, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Erica Sadun 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=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">And some other feedback off list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">- Why have individual keywords if they are subsumed into a common representation? </div><div class=""> I would not personally object to simplifying things without the extra keywords</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Eliminate #column entirely? </div><div class=""> No one I know ("Pauline Kael") uses it, but presumably it was designed in there for a reason</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Getting rid of #column or __COLUMN__ seems extremely arbitrary; it’s very useful when providing debug output. Why would you remove it? </div><div><br class=""></div><div>This is a trivial example, but you’d have no easy way to tell which err’ed:</div><div><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><div><font face="Menlo" class="">func err(line: Int = __LINE__, column: Int = __COLUMN__) {</font></div></div><div><div><font face="Menlo" class=""> print("err: \(line):\(column)")</font></div></div><div><div><font face="Menlo" class="">}</font></div></div><div><div><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div><div><font face="Menlo" class="">if true { err() } else { err() }</font></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br class=""></div><div>The value of __LINE__ to #line is marginal. However, the collapse to a #sourceLocation structure of some sort that contained the info would be fantastic.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-David</div><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>