[swift-evolution] Brace syntax

[Andrey Tarantsov]

> I don't know many people who have experienced a large variety (8+?) of programming languages and prefer Python's forced indentation

Count me as one. I'd prefer Swift to have Python-style indentation, just on the grounds of braces being stupid (why would you want to enter the same scope information twice)?

So +1 from me, although I don't suffer from the braces at all.

I do want to point out that the amount of code that fits on a screen is fairly important, and you should keep your methods short, so one less brace per method means a couple more methods per screen.

This would also free up braces to mean “closure” in 100% of cases, which is good for consistency.

But it would introduce it's share of problems for sure, so I don't feel strongly about this proposal.

I also admit that braces are generally preferred, for some mysterious reason that I hope a believer can articulate here. Take Sass, for example; it has both an indentation-based syntax and a braces-based syntax, and the latter one seems way more popular.

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