> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:11, Joe Groff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> It's worth noting that—for better or for worse—explicit capture has 
>> different semantics from implicit capture today. If a local variable ('var', 
>> not 'let') is captured, it is captured by value when mentioned explicitly 
>> and by reference when not. This is discussed in The Swift Programming 
>> Language 
>> <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/Expressions.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH32-ID544>.
>> 
>> If you were to then propose a syntax of `inout x` or `&x`, I would argue 
>> that there is no inout-ish behavior: updates to the variable both inside and 
>> outside the closure (a) are always reflected immediately (i.e. there is no 
>> writeback), and (b) are not subject to the aliasing restrictions that 
>> 'inout' has. 
>> 
>> (Not that I have an alternative spelling handy.)
> 
> `[var x]` seems to me like a reasonable spelling for explicit `var` capture.

I forgot to preempt that one too. :-) That would be somewhat at odds with the 
"var x" we left in switches, which is definitely an independent variable. 
(Especially if someone extends it to "var x = y".)

Jordan

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