[swift-evolution] ternary operator ?: suggestion

[Craig Cruden]

> On 2016-01-08, at 19:58:45, Thorsten Seitz <tseitz42 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> But then the question arises: shouldn’t { case <pattern>: <expr> … } allow statements, too?
> I would think so.
> In Scala this is allowed, e.g. I can write
> val f: PartialFunction[Any, Int] = { case x: Int => { println(x); x + 1 } }
> 
> -Thorsten

Of course…. why would it not…. it just cannot be on the last line (the return value) since println(x) is void.   You could have any number of statements, expressions, assignments  etc…  before finally returning a value.
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