> On May 20, 2016, at 11:42 AM, John McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On May 20, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> On May 20, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> On May 20, 2016, at 10:25, John McCall <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 19, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution 
>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>> On May 14, 2016, at 22:16, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
>>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 13, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution 
>>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> This encourages the use of empty closures over optional closures, 
>>>>>>>> which I think is open for debate. In general I try to avoid optionals 
>>>>>>>> when they can be precisely replaced with a non-optional value. 
>>>>>>>> Furthermore, most Cocoa completion handlers are not optional.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The alternative is to not do this, but encourage that any closure that 
>>>>>>>> could reasonably be empty should in fact be optional. I would then 
>>>>>>>> want Cocoa functions with void-returning closures to be imported as 
>>>>>>>> optionals to avoid "{ _ in }".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> +1. In general, I think we should allow implicit arguments, without 
>>>>>>> requiring the closure to use all the implicit $n variables like we do 
>>>>>>> today. These should all be valid:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> let _: () -> () = {}
>>>>>>> let _: (Int) -> () = {}
>>>>>>> let _: (Int, Int) -> Int = { 5 }
>>>>>>> let _: (Int, Int) -> Int = { $0 }
>>>>>>> let _: (Int, Int) -> Int = { $1 }
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I agree, but I consider this to be an obvious bug in the compiler.  I 
>>>>>> don’t think it requires a proposal.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry to find this thread late. I don’t think this is just a bug; it’s 
>>>>> also a way to check that a parameter isn’t getting forgotten. For a 
>>>>> single-expression closure that’s probably overkill, but maybe we’d keep 
>>>>> the restriction for multi-statement closures?
>>>> 
>>>> The bug we're talking about is that closures have to have a reference to 
>>>> $n when there are n+1 parameters.
>>> 
>>> Oh, I completely forgot that it’s only $n you have to reference, not $n-1 
>>> or anything else. So I guess it’s not quite serving the purpose I thought 
>>> it was.
>>> 
>>> Jordan
>> 
>> Who knew?  http://i.imgur.com/8ytNkn0.jpg <http://i.imgur.com/8ytNkn0.jpg> !
>> 
>> So anyway, how hard a problem is this to fix? And do you want me to submit 
>> the proposal as a PR or not?
> 
> Not requiring you to refer to the last argument is a bug fix, and not 
> requiring "_ in" will fall out from that fix.  I think that means there's 
> nothing left to propose.  If anyone feels strongly that you should have to do 
> *something* to ignore arguments, at least if you're ignoring all of them, 
> that should be its own proposal.
> 
> John.

History to date: 

1. draft proposal:  
https://gist.github.com/erica/3731e24fc252c8e66850e0e02f491281 
<https://gist.github.com/erica/3731e24fc252c8e66850e0e02f491281>

2. bug report: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1528 
<https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1528> (although it seems the bug is wrongly 
named, and should be "requires reference to ultimate anonymous argument, not 
all arguments)

I do not feel strongly that you should have to do *anything* to ignore 
arguments. It should be magical.

Thus, it sounds like I should kick back and cross this off my "take action" 
list. Right?

-- E

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