<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=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 19, 2017, at 12:57 PM, Charles Srstka 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="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">I disagree. How the reader is supposed to now there is a static property or not ? Having readable code is more important than having easy to write code.</span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I’ve got to agree with this. With the proposed syntax, it’s unclear whether you’re referring to a static property or a key path. It’s going to cause confusion. There needs to be some kind of syntactic way to differentiate the two.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>How often do you have a property with the exact same name and type on both the instance and type? When you *do* have one, how often would it be better off with a name like `defaultFoo` instead of plain `foo`?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Why is this a problem for keypaths, but not for unbound methods?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>How is this different from a hundred other places in Swift where we allow overloading and tolerate ambiguity in order to enjoy nicer syntax?</div><br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class=""><div>When, in practice, do you expect this to cause trouble?</div><div><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12px; " class="">-- </div><div style="font-size: 12px; " class="">Brent Royal-Gordon</div><div style="font-size: 12px; " class="">Architechies</div></div></span>
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