> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_r...@apple.com> wrote: >> >> :-( I'm worried about increasing the size of the language this much. I >> really want to be able to say "behaviors are just syntactic sugar for >> declaring accessors and storage, and then everything else behaves normally". >> This makes them another entirely orthogonal decl kind, like operators. > > I'd prefer not to have a new decl as well, if that was the best choice. > However, it's still just syntactic sugar for declaring accessors and storage.
I think there’s value for users in being able to group and scope the components associated with a particular behavior, so IMO it’s worth it. Overall, it makes usage of the language less complex in practice. -Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
