> Am 05.04.2016 um 01:52 schrieb Dany St-Amant via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]>:.
>
> I am with you here, Swift is Swift, C is C, Swift should not be hampered by
> keeping the syntax identical to C. But, it seems that most prefer to type
> less, so we should be really careful with proposing new keywords like this
> 'then' and 'do' as they carry little meaning, have to be mandatory (as per
> Chris), and are really needed only for trailing closure which will not be
> used by everyone.
>
> So, I'm against adding these 'then' and 'do' keywords for the sake of
> providing the trailing support to 'if' and 'for'.
FWIW adding 'then' would allow using 'if' as an expression by replacing the
{...} blocks with expressions. One argument against 'if' expressions was that {
} are ugly within an expression. So there might be a benefit besides providing
trailing support.
-Thorsten
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