<div dir="ltr">This is my draft proposal.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/jcampbell05/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0045-remove-falliable-initilizer.md">https://github.com/jcampbell05/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0045-remove-falliable-initilizer.md</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Let me know your thoughts.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Tino Heth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:2th@gmx.de" target="_blank">2th@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1<br>
Without "try?", it would be really inconvenient to not have "init?" — but failable initializers as they are now are somewhat odd, because they are half-function and half-procedure:<br>
Regular init-methods have no return, so you can basically think of them as a configuration that is called on an allocated object.<br>
This isn't true anymore for "init?", as it not only it turns a "void-function" into something that returns an optional, but also doesn't explicitly model the non-nil case (there is no "return self").<br>
Replacing this mechanism with an error would actually make initializers more method-like, and less special.<br>
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