You've made that pretty clear in your writings (which I have enjoyed, by the way.) I'm curious, do you want Swift to be that language - and, if so, have you been participating in the dev forums[1] and filing bug reports into rdar? Would you mind sharing the rdar number that you filed about this issue so that others whose preferences lean in the same direction can add our voices to the chorus?

And, if not, what is your goal?

Edit: I see that you've answered my question on your blog[2] by answering someone else who asked the same thing. Thank you!

[1] https://devforums.apple.com/community/tools/languages/swift

[2] http://openradar.appspot.com/17472835