[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Make `return` optional in computed properties for a single case

[David Hart]

It isn’t a special case because all other single-statement closures in the language work that way. It’s actually inconsistent now.

> On 28 May 2016, at 09:03, Brian Christensen via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> On May 27, 2016, at 13:57, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> The idea is simple:
>> 
>> 	• Can we make return keyword optional in cases like this?
>> 	• Shouldn’t this behave like @autoclosure or @noescape?
>> type A {
>>    var characters: [Character] = …
>>    var string: String { String(self.characters) }
>>    var count: Int { 42 }
>> }
>> 
>> Is this worth a proposal or Swifty enough, what do you think?
>> 
>> Sure I could write return, but why do we allow this behavior for @noescape functions like map!?
> 
> While I am not necessarily against this idea, I do wonder if it’s worth making what’s going on here less obvious simply for the sake of being able to omit a six character keyword. As I understand it, one of the reasons ++/-- were removed was due to the increased "burden to learn Swift as a first programming language.” This is the sort of thing that becomes another one of those special cases that has to be explained to someone new to Swift.
> 
> /brian
> 
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