<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 Mar 29, 2017, at 6:08 PM, Matthew Johnson 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=""><span 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;" class="">The one big loss I see from the original proposal is that the current design does not allow us to create a type context that provides something as concise as the original dot shorthand to create key paths. It's still supported in one sense, but require the #keyPath() wrapper around the key path expression. That's a lot less elegant. </span><br 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;" class=""><br 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;" class=""><span 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;" class="">I would love it if we found a way to retain something as concise as that shorthand. I'm working on a library where users will specify a collection of key paths pairs. This shorthand would be a very nice piece of sugar making the code expressing these collections (usually literals) quite a bit more readable.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">+1 for this. I think it will be somewhat common to pass around arrays of these things, and a shorthand syntax of some sort would make that nicer. That said, I don’t want to slow down the proposal, since I will be using this feature the very second it becomes available.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Jon</div></body></html>