food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Apr 15 20:15:07 UTC 2019


On 4/15/2019 5:54 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> Then they were incorrect and removing them was reasonable. But of course, in 
> this case this anecdote has no bearing on the current discussion: you removed 
> them (instead of fixing them), because they were too hard to implement, not 
> because they were too easy to implement. :)

I removed them because they were implemented as trivia, and hence offered no 
value. (Yes, that is not just a reformulation of the reason you gave.)

If they were implemented in such a way as to offer value that 1/sin did not, 
then I would have considered retaining them.


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