<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+1<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I really feel like the number of modifiers and decorators and annotations etc....has reached the point of illegibility.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><phrase><pronoun>It</pronoun><verb tense="present>is</verb><adverb modifies="is" purpose="intensifier">really</adverb><adjective>ridiculous</adjective><phrase></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That's what trying to read swift is getting to be like.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trying to make every single nuance explicit is a fool's errand and is killing readability. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, the choice to discard a result is properly the provenance of the caller, not an intrinsic feature of a function.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'll stop now.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 15, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Geordie Jay 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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I've always read it (frustratingly) as e.g. "func throws Bool", which it doesn't, it throws an Error.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>