+1
Some more comments inline.

Am 23.03.2016 um 10:52 schrieb Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution 
<[email protected]>:

>> The solution is simple: allow trailing closures in guard bodies.  This would 
>> allow this silly example to compile correctly:
>> 
>> func f(arr : [Int]?) {
>>  guard let x = arr?.map {$0+1} else {
>>    preconditionFailure()
>>  }
>> 
>>  // ...
>> }
> 
> This sounds perfectly reasonable.
> 
>> Alternatives considered
>> 
>> There are three primary alternatives: do nothing, expand the scope of ‘if' 
>> and ‘while’ conditions as well, and significantly change the syntax of guard.
> 
> A fourth alternative would be to change the syntaxes of `if` and `while` (and 
> probably `for` and `switch`) to also have a keyword in this position.
> 
>    if expr then { code }
>    while expr do { code }
>    for elem in expr do { code }
>    switch expr among { code }

Switch does not need a new keyword, as it already has 'case'.
Adding 'then' to if statements would easily allow if-then-else expressions 
without braces by just replacing the blocks with expressions.

-Thorsten 

> 
> I'm not going to say I advocate for this option, but it *would* clearly mark 
> the end of the condition so that trailing closures could be brought to all of 
> these statements, so it seemed worth mentioning.
> 
> -- 
> Brent Royal-Gordon
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