[swift-evolution] Idea: change "@noreturn func f()" to "func f() noreturn"

Joe Groff jgroff at apple.com
Thu Feb 25 16:40:54 CST 2016


> On Feb 25, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Radosław Pietruszewski <radexpl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ah, that’s a neat idea! Not sure it’s an improvement though to have a magic type that changes how the compiler treats your method, rather than a rather explicit *attribute* on the method…

There's no magic. If you can't construct a value of your return type, you can't return.

-Joe


More information about the swift-evolution mailing list