<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 Jul 11, 2016, at 8:00 PM, Ford Prefect 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=""><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;" class=""><div class="">Perhaps one of the most disliked aspects of Swift</div>
<div class="">is the Rust-like syntax, which requires that each coder resign himself to</div>
<div class="">grin-and-bear-it in order to obtain the benefits of Swift.</div>
<div class="">Since "the writing is on the wall" that Objective C</div>
<div class="">is in its last days at least as far as app writers go</div>
<div class="">(maybe within Apple it will endure), is there any</div>
<div class="">chance of sweetening the pill a bit by giving us</div>
<div class="">back the more readable syntax of Objective C, in particular</div>
<div class="">the method call syntax? It just made more sense to</div>
<div class="">format a method call like Smalltalk.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Hi Ford,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m sorry, but such a change is an additive feature, which is out of scope for Swift 3.0. We’ll have to carefully consider this proposal after the Swift 3 release is done.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>HG2G,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Chris</div><br class=""></body></html>