[swift-evolution] ternary operator ?: suggestion

[Thorsten Seitz]

>> Am 20.01.2016 um 02:12 schrieb Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>:
>> 
>> On Jan 19, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Thorsten Seitz <tseitz42 at icloud.com> wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> The big advantage of the partial function proposal would be that it is much more general as it is usable everywhere a unary function argument is used, i.e. for map etc.
>>> 
>>> Sure, you’re optimizing for one specific case at the expense of composability.  I personally don’t find that compelling, but YMMV.
>> 
>> I’m not sure I understand. What specific case do you mean and what composability is lost with the unary function approach?
> 
> I’m saying that tying closure expressions and switch expressions together makes it inconvenient when you want a local switch in a non-function context.

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I still don't understand. Using the global match() function you can easily provide the function context and place the switch locally everywhere an expression is possible.

-Thorsten 
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