<div dir="ltr">To summarize, there&#39;s one ambiguous case we&#39;d need to resolve:<div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">func foo(_ x: Int, reportingOverflow)</font></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">func foo(_ x: Int, _ reportingOverflow: Bool)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">let reportingOverflow = true</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">foo(5, reportingOverflow) // Ambiguous</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">One solution is to make trailing argument labels syntactic sugar for a trailing void argument.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">That would allow breaking ambiguity by specifying it explicitly:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">foo(5, reportingOverflow: ())</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A related issue is the call-site ambiguity for the reader (less of a problem if Xcode highlighted argument labels).</font></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Haravikk via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On 22 Feb 2017, at 15:38, Vladimir.S &lt;<a href="mailto:svabox@gmail.com" target="_blank">svabox@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div></span><span class=""><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Do I understand correctly, that the proposed solution is some kind of sugar to not have separate method named like &#39;addingWithReportingOverflow&#39; ?</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><span class=""><div>Basically yes; the discussion came up briefly during protocol oriented integers where this is quite common, especially with added methods for handling double-width operations and such as well.</div><br></span><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">In any case IMO such argument label should have special syntax on caller site.. don&#39;t know, probably:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">let resultWithOverflow = a.adding(b, :reportingOverflow)</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">probably with the same declaration:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">func adding(_ other:Self, :reportingOverflow) -&gt; (Self, Bool)</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><span class=""><div>Huh, that could be a great alternative! It would solve the ambiguity issues completely and allow for even single argument cases (if someone wanted to use those).</div><div>Any preferences on how to specify these arguments? e.g- just declare them void, attribute or something else?</div><div><br></div><div>Also apologies to Patrick, I seem to be leading his discussion, I really should get some work done! ðŸ˜„</div></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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