<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* What is your evaluation of the proposal?</span><div><br></div><div>Strong assent.</div><div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Lots of people have complained about heavily parameterized generic code being difficult to read and rather scary looking in general. While this proposal makes no changes to the expressiveness of the language, it improves developer ergonomics and helps keep people's eyes from glazing over when they try reading through such functions.</div><div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?</span></div><div><br></div><div>No loss of expressive power, an improvement overall. (There is also a pleasing symmetry with the 'where' clause syntax for protocol extensions.) It feels more natural: the most important information (name, generic type parameter decls, formal parameters, and return type/effects) are all introduced to the reader before the subordinate constraint clause is introduced with 'where'. Before, the angle brackets portion of a function declaration could become a huge multi-line symbol-rich blob separating the function name from the parameters/return type, making it harder to visually parse.</div><div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?</span></div><div><br></div><div>I believe Rust does something similar. This is probably another advantage, a tiny bit of friction removed from people who want to move between these two languages.</div><div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Close reading of the proposal; followed along within the proposal thread.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Austin</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Chris Lattner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com" target="_blank">clattner@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Swift community,<br>
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The review of "SE-0081: Move where clause to end of declaration" begins now and runs through May 16. The proposal is available here:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0081-move-where-expression.md" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0081-move-where-expression.md</a><br>
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Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All reviews should be sent to the swift-evolution mailing list at<br>
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<a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br>
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or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to the review manager.<br>
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What goes into a review?<br>
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The goal of the review process is to improve the proposal under review through constructive criticism and contribute to the direction of Swift. When writing your review, here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:<br>
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* What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br>
* Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?<br>
* Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?<br>
* If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?<br>
* How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?<br>
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More information about the Swift evolution process is available at<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md</a><br>
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Thank you,<br>
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-Chris Lattner<br>
Review Manager<br>
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