Re: [swift-users] Question out of curiosity: why "func"

2016-04-04 Thread David Turnbull via swift-users
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Jim Malak via swift-users < swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > what purpose does requiring the keyword “func” serve when defining or > decaling a function in Swift. > func someFunction() { } someFunctionThatTakesAClosure() { } -david _

Re: [swift-users] swift build

2016-04-04 Thread Dave Yost via swift-users
Thanks. I’ve got it now. I reported several suggestions for the Getting Started and Download instructions. Dave > On 2016-04-03, at 7:37 PM, Daniel Dunbar wrote: > > If you build swift yourself you need to point directly at swift-build. Most > people grab the pre-built toolchains from swift.

Re: [swift-users] Question out of curiosity: why "func"

2016-04-04 Thread Jim Malak via swift-users
Thanks Jens, My main languages are C#, c, obj-c and now Swift. You can appreciate my point of view. I’ll just assume that adding “func” contributes towards the common good. Thanks for responding. - Jim From: Jens Alfke Date: Monday, April 4, 2016 at 2:32 PM To: Jim Malak Cc: "swif

Re: [swift-users] Question out of curiosity: why "func"

2016-04-04 Thread Jens Alfke via swift-users
> On Apr 4, 2016, at 7:25 AM, Jim Malak via swift-users > wrote: > > My background going into Swift was everything but JavaScript. Have you used Ruby or Python, both of which use a “def” keyword before a definition? And come to think of it, I think most non-C-derived languages use some sort

[swift-users] Silence 2.2 Warnings in Xcode 7.3

2016-04-04 Thread Eric E. Dolecki via swift-users
I'm working on a project using Swift 2.1. I upgraded my Xcode to the latest and now see hundreds of warnings for Swift 2.2 improvements (mostly things like the change in selector syntax). Is there a way to turn off Swift 2.2 warnings in favor of Swift 2.1 warnings in Xcode? I can't go in an fix

[swift-users] Question out of curiosity: why "func"

2016-04-04 Thread Jim Malak via swift-users
My background going into Swift was everything but JavaScript. One thing I often wondered about (usually every time I forgot to type it) is what purpose does requiring the keyword “func” serve when defining or decaling a function in Swift. I am not a compiler expert but intuitively it would seem