<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 Mar 11, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Dave 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=""><div class="">I’m sorta in favor… Reading the proposal, I agree that something needed to be done, but I think a better solution would’ve been to disallow comments between operators and their operands. Sorry, I didn’t see the thread about it, or I would’ve said something there.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I think there are cases where comments between operators & operands can be useful in long expressions. Arguably there are nicer ways to write this, but this pattern is pretty common in mathy code:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><font face="Courier" class="">let total = (a + // base amount</font></div><div><font face="Courier" class=""> b / 2 + // half of leftovers from last time</font></div><div><font face="Courier" class=""> c + 1) // fudge factor</font></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Anyway, if it’s this vs leaving it alone, then +1 for this.<br class=""><br class="">-Dave Sweeris<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 11, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Chris Lattner <<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com" class="">clattner@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello Swift community,<br class=""><br class="">The review of “Clarify interaction between comments & operators” begins now and runs through March 15, 2016. The proposal is available here:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0037-clarify-comments-and-operators.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0037-clarify-comments-and-operators.md</a><br class=""><br class="">Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All reviews should be sent to the swift-evolution mailing list at:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""><br class="">or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to the review manager. When replying, please try to keep the proposal link at the top of the message:<br class=""><br class="">What goes into a review?<br class=""><br class="">The goal of the review process is to improve the proposal under review through constructive criticism and, eventually, determine the direction of Swift. When writing your review, here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?<br class=""><br class="">More information about the Swift evolution process is available at:<br class=""><br class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md<br class=""><br class="">Thank you,<br class=""><br class="">-Chris<br class="">Review Manager<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution-announce mailing list<br class="">swift-evolution-announce@swift.org<br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution-announce<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>