<div dir="ltr">This is clearly a fine addition to the standard library; even Swift's Error Handling Rationale (<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ErrorHandlingRationale.rst">https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ErrorHandlingRationale.rst</a>) mentions such an addition<br><br>What separates standard library types from other types is that they have language level support, and the wrapping and unwrapping syntax here could definitely benefit from it (`.unwrap()`--which should be `.unwrapped()` incidentally--is so much less elegant in comparison to `?` and `!` for optionals (not that `Result` should use the exact such syntax for a distinct operation)). It would be a shame to transpose a third-party `Result` to the standard library without considering if any such tweaks would substantially improve ergonomics, interconversion with Optional and throws, etc.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Jon Shier via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></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;line-break:after-white-space">Swift-Evolution:<div><span class="m_-4434525584991225668Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>I’ve written a first draft of a proposal to add Result<T> to the standard library by directly porting the Result<T> type used in Alamofire to the standard library. I’d be happy to implement it (type and tests for free!) if someone could point me to the right place to do so. I’m not including it directly in this email, since it includes the full implementation and is therefore quite long. (Discourse, please!) </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/jshier/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0187-add-result-to-the-standard-library.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/jshier/<wbr>swift-evolution/blob/master/<wbr>proposals/0187-add-result-to-<wbr>the-standard-library.md</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jon Shier</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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