Ensure is more comprehensible, guard is for sure "always" been there in older languages... could it be kind of aliased somehow? I tend to confuse guard sometimes, despite many few decades of using it.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 25, 2016, at 10:20 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > At this point in Swift's evolution, source-breaking changes to the > language require strong motivation. We can't really entertain superficial > keyword changes like this without overwhelming evidence that the existing > syntax is problematic in practice. `guard` has precedent in functional > languages, for instance in Haskell where the `guard` function is > idiomatically used as part of monadic `do`-notation computations, and has > the same positive condition semantics in those languages. > > Right. Jay, I’m sorry if you or others find the name “guard” to be > confusing, but there are many Swift developers that like it. I is almost > inconceivable that we would change it at this point. > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > -- *Alessandro Alexander Stone Aresta* senior development & consulting *email : [email protected] <[email protected]>* *skype : alexanderstone2007* *This is a confidential communication intended only for the named addressee. * * If you received this **communication **in **error, please notify us and return and delete it without reading it. * *This e-mail may not be * *disclosed, copied or distributed* * in **any form without the obtained permission in writing of Alessandro Aresta. * *In any case it may not be altered or otherwise * *changed. * * Whilst Alessandro Aresta believes that the information is correct at the date of the e-mail, no warranty and * *representation is given to this effect and no responsibility can be accepted by Alessandro Aresta.*
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