> On May 10, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution
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> Hello Swift community,
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> The review of "SE-0084: Allow trailing commas in parameter lists and tuples"
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+1 from me. We should be consistent in either accepting or rejecting trailing
commas everywhere we have comma-delimited syntax. I'm in favor of accepting it,
since it's popular in languages where it's supported to enable a minimal-diff
style, so that changes to code don't impact neighboring lines for purely
syntactic reasons. If you add an argument to a function, without trailing comma
support, a comma has to be added to dirty the previous line:
--- a.swift
+++ a.swift
foo(
x: 0,
- y: 1
+ y: 1,
+ z: 2
)
Trailing commas avoid this:
--- a.swift
+++ a.swift
foo(
x: 0,
y: 1,
+ z: 2,
)
In languages that don't support trailing commas, many users resort to the
abomination of leading-comma style, strangely popular in Haskell and related
languages:
--- a.swift
+++ a.swift
foo( x: 0
, y: 1
+ , z: 2
)
I think the trailing-comma syntax jives much better with Swift style.
-Joe
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