> On Mar 23, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 } > > 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.
Thanks, I’ll add this to the end of the proposal! -Chris _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
