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<pre><code class="swift">let chain: T = foo.a()
let new = chain
new. // should not see `a` here
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<p>It’s more something like a local scoped chain. I’m not sure how to call it correctly here. I’m not a native English speaker. =)</p>
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<p>By ‘calling once’ I meant, calling once at a single permutation
chain. If the chain is escaped or followed by a non-permuting
member that returns the same protocol, you’d have the ability to
use all members at the starting point of the new chain.</p>
<pre><code class="swift">permuting protocol T {
func a()
func b()
func c()
func d()
}
var foo: T = …
func boo(_ val: T) -> U {
// Here val escapes the chain and creates a new one
// That means that you can create a local permutation chain here again
val.a() // we can use `a` here
return …
}
boo(foo.a()) // a is immediately invoked here
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<p>I imagine this keyword to follow value semantics, so that any
possible mutation is handled locally with a nice extra ability of
permutation member chaining.</p>
<p>Did I understood your point correctly here?</p>
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<p>Sure the idea needs to be more fleshed out, but I’m curious if
that’s something that we might see in Swift one day. :)</p>
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<p class="airmail_on">Am 26. Dezember 2016 um 11:50:50, Xiaodi Wu
(<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>)
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Given `foo: T` and methods a(), b(), c(), d(), each of which can
only be called once, how can the return value of these methods be
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That is, if `foo.a()` can be passed as an argument to an arbitrary
function of type `(T) -> U`, either the function cannot
immediately invoke a(), in which case foo is not of type T, or it
can immediately invoke a(), in which case your keyword does not
work.</span></span></div>
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