<html><head></head><body><div>In Ruby there is a special syntax for hash</div><div><br></div><div>[ "key" => "value"] which makes it less ambiguous compared to =<br><br><div class="acompli_signature">Sent from <a href="https://aka.ms/qtex0l">Outlook Mobile</a></div><br></div><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM -0800, "Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<pre>> If ":" should be replaced by "=" than only at the call site to make it more consistent with variable declaration and initialization:
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> myFunc(number = 4, string = 7)
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> func myFunc(number: Int, string: String) {}
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> Although writing "=" instead of ":" in methods in 1.5 years Swift and over 20 years Objective-C would be a huge change.
To be clear, I like colon in parameter lists; I don't see passing a parameter as setting something.
I suppose mainly what I'd like is for attributes to change:
@available(iOS, introduced: 7.0, deprecated: 8.0)
And *possibly* for dictionary literals to change:
let dict = ["key" = "value"] // Also, the shorthand syntax would be [String = String]
Although dictionary literals seem like a relatively high-impact change compared to its value.
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