> On May 27, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Matthew Johnson <matt...@anandabits.com> wrote:
>>> Also, can someone refer me to an example of this statement: "This proposal
>>> resolves this problem by retaining commas as separators within clauses (as
>>> used elsewhere in Swift) and introducing semicolons to separate distinct
>>> kinds of clauses (which aligns with the rest of the Swift language)”
>>
>> guard let x = opt1, y = opt2, z = opt3; booleanAssertion else { }
>>
>>>
>>> I rarely see any semicolons after the removal of C loops. So if someone
>>> could put me to where this is used elsewhere in Swift, please do!
>>
>> Using semicolons brings conditions in-line with how semicolons are used as
>> separators elsewhere in the Swift grammar.
>
> Not really. We can use a newline instead of the semicolon elsewhere.
Outside of braces? Think of the guard/if/while creating a new miniscope that
has no braces, and whose value assignments escape to the surrounding scope. I
defer to Chris for better technical answers.
-- E
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