> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:00 PM, Ford Prefect via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps one of the most disliked aspects of Swift > is the Rust-like syntax, which requires that each coder resign himself to > grin-and-bear-it in order to obtain the benefits of Swift. > Since "the writing is on the wall" that Objective C > is in its last days at least as far as app writers go > (maybe within Apple it will endure), is there any > chance of sweetening the pill a bit by giving us > back the more readable syntax of Objective C, in particular > the method call syntax? It just made more sense to > format a method call like Smalltalk.
Hi Ford, I’m sorry, but such a change is an additive feature, which is out of scope for Swift 3.0. We’ll have to carefully consider this proposal after the Swift 3 release is done. HG2G, -Chris
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