FWIW, totally agree with this opinion. I also don't understand why "poor
beginner who would start typing swift code before reading the manual"
becomes so important when we decide to accept or not some new feature or
change. Are we working on language that must be used just to teach
children/beginners for programming or the main purpose of Swift is
developing of real(often complex) software products?
Please don't tell me that Swift *can* be used to teach children/beginners,
I know this, and I believe this is good, and only very basic
syntax/features will be used for this.
On 16.05.2016 10:46, L. Mihalkovic via swift-evolution wrote:
{bracket}I have watched some of the past discussion in the archive and
noticed a number of situations when good proposals get derailed in the name
of how difficult the syntax would become for the poor beginner who would
start typing swift code before reading the manual. My depiction is a bit
itself of an exageration, but if we all thing about it, I am sure we can
name one such proposal. Programming is not a magical activity that one
should be able to perform without any learning curve, in the name of a
universal intuition guiding us all in the right direction. I would even
wager that the more languages one learns, the easier it becomes to make
wrong assumptions based on how familiar certain patterns or notions
seem{/bracket}
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