> 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
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