-1 from me. I prefer explicitness at function boundaries. On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:55 PM, David Sweeris via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> > On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Kilian Koeltzsch via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I sent the message below to swift-users@ ~a day ago, but this might be a > better place to ask and gather some discussion. It is a rather minor > suggestion and I'm just looking for some opinions. > > Declaring a function that has default parameters currently looks like this: > > func foo(bar: String = "baz") { > print(bar) > } > > Now I'm wondering if there would be any problems if it were possible to > omit the type annotation for default params and let Swift's type inference > handle that. > > func foo(bar = "baz") { > print(bar) > } > > It feels to be equivalent to omitting type annotations with variable > declarations. Obviously more complex types would still require annotations > being specified. Off the top of my head I can't think of any negative > ramifications this might bring, be it in simple function/method > declarations or protocol extensions and elsewhere. > Any further input or examples for situations where this might cause issues > would be much appreciated :) > > > Tentatively +1… I still haven’t thought through it as much as I’d like to. > > - Dave Sweeris > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > >
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