Hey, I thought I would post another message to this thread because I think it was missed when I first sent it (I made the mistake of sending it at 1am San Francisco time, I'm in Australia).
I appreciate any feedback :) Thanks, Andrew On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Andrew Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Swift can resolve functions based on the return type. However, when the > result is unused a single function often can't be resolved without > explicitly specifying the type. > > func example() { ... } > func example() -> Int { ... } > > example() as Void > example() as Int > > This proposal disambiguates some cases: > > - Preferring functions with a *Void* return type when the result *is* > discarded. > - Preferring functions with a *non-Void* type when the result *is not* > discarded. > > These example will be unambiguous: > > example() // will prefer a `Void` function > let x = example() // will prefer a non-`Void` function > > You can read the full latest version of the proposal here: > > > https://github.com/therealbnut/swift-evolution/blob/andrew-disambiguate-return-type/proposals/0000-disambiguate-return-type.md > > This is the original version > <https://github.com/therealbnut/swift-evolution/blob/59d0f0b9bdabcfd675f36824232a8efa4a5f9152/proposals/0000-disambiguate-return-type.md> > of > the proposal. >
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