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A comment on What’s New in Swift 5.2. Parent comment

Re:What’s New in Swift 5.2 by rhysmorgan on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:56PM (#22260825)
> I'm going to find him something simpler to work on.

Sure, but why should this non-feature which makes code harder to read and reason about even be built in the first place? All to save `.parse` at the call site of a parser, for example?

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Re:What’s New in Swift 5.2 by edflsafoiewq on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:59PM (#22262532)
This syntax already exists in the language. If you want users to be able to use the obj() syntax you can already give them a closure for obj. Allowing it for user-defined types too removes an artificial syntactic distinction.
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