[swift-evolution] Guard Implicit Fallback

Félix Cloutier felixcca at yahoo.ca
Thu Feb 11 11:46:13 CST 2016


Error cases are very often neglected and I feel that this would only encourage it.

Félix

> Le 10 févr. 2016 à 22:40:48, Tighe Racicot via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hey everyone, 
> 
> I feel that `guard` could be a little more Swifty and would like to start a conversation concerning it.
> 
> For example, I often have a function whose job depends on an optional having a value, and so I guard-let at the start and return if the guard fails. Or if the function returns an optional type, I'll simply return nil if guard fails. 
> 
> Can we improve on the general fallback case? Could we simply say:
> 
> func noReturn() {
>     guard let aValue = someOptional
>     ....
> }
> 
> and have that imply "else { return void or nil }"
> 
> What are your thoughts?
> 
> Tighe
> 
> _______________________________________________
> swift-evolution mailing list
> swift-evolution at swift.org
> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/attachments/20160211/a8ece021/attachment.html>


More information about the swift-evolution mailing list