[OT] Swift removing minor features to piss me off

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 28 23:27:07 PDT 2016


On 2016-04-29 00:37, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Of course, in an ideal world you'd have a "forever" keyword instead, but
> using up an entire keyword just for this one specific kind of loop seems
> a little excessive. So for(;;) seems like the perfect balance between
> idealism and practicality to me.

In an ideal world the language would support trailing delegate syntax 
allowing this to work without any language support:

forever {
}

Translated to:

forever({

});

I'm pretty sure Swift supports trailing delegate syntax.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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