[swift-evolution] Better syntax for deferred?

[Tim Hawkins]

Again my 2 cents

Other languages use "deffer", and have very simular semantics, there is no
benifit gained from being different, and it makes peoples task of
transfering from other systems easier.

The percieved "simplicity" of the alternative semanatics and naming is
subjective. What is there works just fine and achives the result it was
designed to do. Why do we need to change it?
On Jan 3, 2016 1:47 AM, "Maury Markowitz via swift-evolution" <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 2, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Sebastian Mecklenburg via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> >
> > I don’t think it’s confusing, I read ‘defer’ a ‘do it later’ and that’s
> just what it does. And the deferred calls are not always necessary so they
> can’t always be placed at the end.
>
> Can you be more specific about "deferred calls are not always necessary"?
> Do you mean that you could, for instance, place an if in front of the
> defer? If so one could do the same with always, of course. I'll use your
> example, slightly expanded, to illustrate
>
> > func testDefer(x: Int) {
> >    defer {print("deferred call1")}
> >    if x > 1 { defer {print("deferred call2")} }
>     print("non-deferred call")
> > }
>
> I would rewrite this as:
>
>     func testAlways(x: Int) {
>         print("non-deferred call")
>         always {
>             print("deferred call1")
>             if x > 1 print("deferred call2")
>         }
>     }
>
> Which is 100% equivalent to your example, but works precisely as you would
> expect without needing to "be aware" of any "logical consequence"s. The
> code runs exactly as it appears.
>
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