[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[AsmMan via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 00:06:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/2/2014 3:03 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> I like how the lambdas can omit the parameters then reference 
>> them by special
>> $0, $1, etc (e.g., { $0 < $1 }).
>
> We had something similar years ago, to support regexes, and 
> people hated it so I reverted it.

Well-done. It's really ugly. I hate it.