The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 1, 2016 @08:46AM from the not-willing-to-force-every-function-to-be-recursive dept.

An anonymous reader writes: When Apple made its Swift programming language open source in early December, it opened the floodgates for suggestions and requests from developers. But the project's maintainers have their own ideas about how the language should evolve, so some suggestions are rejected. Now a list has been compiled of some commonly rejected proposals — it's an interesting window into the development of a language. Swift's developers don't want to replace Brace Syntax with Python-style indentation. They don't want to change boolean operators from && and || to 'and' and 'or'. They don't want to rewrite the Swift compiler in Swift. They don't want to change certain keywords like 'continue' from their C precedents. And they have no interest in removing semicolons.

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Re:They're called architects by HammerToe · 2016-01-01 09:30 · Score: 0, Troll

Swift's developers don't want to replace Brace Syntax with Python-style indentation.
No shit, they aren't retarded. Have you people not learned how stupid that is yet, how many retarded bugs do you have to have from the wrong spacing before you get it through your heads that it was a stupid fucking idea?
None. No, seriously, None. As a python programmer for 15 years, I've never had a bug caused by indentation changing the logic. Python code is usually succinct enough with small enough methods that things like that are immediately obvious. If you have more than a couple of levels on indentation in your code, you are doing it wrong.
-Matt