[swift-evolution] Brace syntax

[Charles Constant]

+1 fwiw

Grr, I hate braces so much I can't even... but I've seen this discussed on
the Apple dev forums. It's not going to happen. I think the best we (those
of us who dislike braces) can ever hope for is that Xcode gives us a way to
view our code in the IDE as though braces didn't exists - even if the
underlying file uses them, and probably the clipboard so that the outside
world can have "one way" of writing Swift. I doubt that will happen either,
but it seems far more likely to me than that Swift will suddenly do a 180
on something I'm sure Chris and the rest considered at length already.



On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Alexander Regueiro via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Has anyone considered removing braces from the Swift language? The main
> alternative would be indentation-based scoping like in Python or Ruby.
> There already seems to be a general emphasis on conciseness,  lack of
> redundancy, and a modern syntax. e.g. semicolons are not required for
> single-line statements; brackets have been removed from if/for/while
> expressions, compared to C-style syntax. So, why not go the whole way in
> breaking the C-style connection? The present syntax seems to be shunning C,
> but only slightly.
>
> Thoughts?
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