Marcel Weiher

@mpweiher @staypufd @timburks Swift inherited its complex initializer rules from Cocoa's informal evolved rules.

@jckarter @staypufd @timburks As the post states: ObjC has *one* rule, which is that “initialisers” are normal message sends.

@mpweiher @staypufd @timburks At the language level, yes. The simple language model leads to complex, unenforced framework-level rules.

@jckarter @staypufd @timburks The thing is those “rules” are just natural consequences of what you want to accomplish, and it is somewhat …

@jckarter @staypufd @timburks …overkill to turn them into rules. After all, we don’t have a “rule” if you want to add numbers in method …