<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Jun 24, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 6:37 AM, William Shipley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjs@mac.com" target="_blank">wjs@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="">On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:04 PM, Xiaodi Wu <<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></span><span class=""><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Not a practitioner of 80-character line limits, I take it?</div></div></blockquote><br></div></span><div>I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t just let Xcode do the wrapping for most cases. I’ll add newlines if I think it adds to clarity, but in general I don’t want to code like i’m still on a Wyse WY-50.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course, to each their own style--I certainly wouldn't want Swift to force everyone to write lines of certain lengths. </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The fact that you bring up a style in a proposal review [about a style imo] (and thus distracting the review process ) just reinforces the thinking that the proposal is about enforcing a particular style. </div><div><br></div><div>I think you made your point clearly in the discussions and proposal. Please allow other people to have their own opinions in this review :), otherwise it is not a review imo. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>But 80-character lines is a common style, and I would say that a corollary of "to each their own" is that Swift's grammar should be usable and useful whether or not you adhere to such style choices.</div><div><br></div><div>If the chief advantage of `where` is that it (quoting someone above) allows one to "<span style="font-size:13px">understand as much as possible about the control flow of the loop from a single line of code," then we ought perhaps to question its appropriateness when the majority of its benefits [by which I mean, based on your examples and Sean's, more than half of the instances in which it is used] cannot be realized in a very common coding style.</span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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