> On 22 Feb 2017, at 15:38, Vladimir.S <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Do I understand correctly, that the proposed solution is some kind of sugar 
> to not have separate method named like 'addingWithReportingOverflow' ?

Basically yes; the discussion came up briefly during protocol oriented integers 
where this is quite common, especially with added methods for handling 
double-width operations and such as well.

> In any case IMO such argument label should have special syntax on caller 
> site.. don't know, probably:
> 
> let resultWithOverflow = a.adding(b, :reportingOverflow)
> 
> probably with the same declaration:
> func adding(_ other:Self, :reportingOverflow) -> (Self, Bool)

Huh, that could be a great alternative! It would solve the ambiguity issues 
completely and allow for even single argument cases (if someone wanted to use 
those).
Any preferences on how to specify these arguments? e.g- just declare them void, 
attribute or something else?

Also apologies to Patrick, I seem to be leading his discussion, I really should 
get some work done! 😄
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