[swift-evolution] [Draft Proposal] A simplified notation for avoiding the weak/strong dance with closure capture lists

[Jason Gregori]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:

> How about
>
> guard reconstitute self else { return }
>

I like the idea behind this but I feel like a line inside the block can't
really dictate whether self is captured weakly or not. Unless your saying
put this in the bracket part?

[guard reconstitute self] ? That works for me.


PS: I got here from your blog post, thanks!


> -- E
>
> On Feb 12, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Jason Gregori via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> I like Kenny and Kurt's points about handling the majority case and
> keeping the syntax simpler.
>
> I feel like most of the time I want to break a retain cycle is for a
> completion block which returns void. Can we just handle that case and get
> rid of the else?
>
> Also, I don't think [guard self] is self explanatory enough. I think weak
> should be in there so it's much more obvious you are doing the weak/strong
> dance with self, otherwise it looks like you are guarding against a regular
> optional being nil.
>
> So:
>
> [guard weak self, other]
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