<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 Oct 20, 2017, at 2:55 PM, David Sweeris 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="">how else are we supposed to express nuances when the language’s default is wrong for the code in question?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Fix the defaults?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Honestly, I'm not sure how I've been programming for so long (30+ years) without having to add half a dozen annotations to every single declaration.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one? </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">— Tom Cargill"</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Same applies to Swift at this point. Its jumped the shark on annotations.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>