> On Apr 14, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Tang via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote: > > > (in Smalltalk, like in Swift?, if i remember correctly, ‘self’ is > > implicitly > > returned in absence of a return value and can be ignored. > I'm a big fan of returning self — its much more useful than void… > But it seems the Swift-community doesn't like method chaining. > > > I dunno about that... AlamoFire and SwiftyJSON both use it, and are quite > popular with rank-and-file Swift programmers. It's certainly not popular in > the Objective-C community (where the syntax doesn't really support it), but > it seems like the Swift community may be warming up to it. > > I also like the idea of a dedicated method-cascading operator, like what Dart > has. It eliminates the need for a programmer to explicitly remember to > 'return self' at the end of a chainable method. Not sure how well it'd > integrate with SE-0047 (@discardableResult) though.
Method cascades draft: https://gist.github.com/erica/6794d48d917e2084d6ed deferred to after 3.0 -- E
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