That’s not really a loophole, because nothing unsafe can happen because of it. 
It’s just a missing feature. Personally I think the added complexity from 
allowing non-parameter closures to be marked non-escaping makes it not worth 
the effort.

Jordan


> On Aug 25, 2016, at 23:58, Fabian Ehrentraud via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The implemented change for closures being @noescape by default is awesome, 
> but an important case was missed. When the closure is stored into a local 
> variable, there currently is no way to make that variable non-escaping.
> 
> 
> class A {
>       
>       let n: Int = 1
>       var cp: (() -> Int)?
>       
>       func f1() {
>               // when directly constructing a new closure in the function 
> call, the compiler knows it will be non-escaping, and no explicit `self` is 
> needed in the closure...
>               f2(c: { n })
>               
>               // ... but when storing the closure in an intermediate 
> variable, it is not assumed as non-escaping, and explicit `self` is needed, 
> and also we cannot prevent that it can be stored in some escaping way
>               let c: () -> Int = {
>                       // the closure variable would need to know if it is 
> escaping or not, as this has impact on whether the user needs to think about 
> problems with strong capture semantics
>                       return self.n
>               }
>               f2(c: c)
>               
>               // this should actually not be allowed, unless the closure c is 
> marked as @escaping
>               cp = c
>       }
>       
>       func f2(c: () -> Int) -> Int {
>               return c()
>       }
>       
> }
> 
> 
> Is this rather a bug in the implementation of SE-0103, or a new feature 
> request?
> 
> 
> best,
> Fabian
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