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

Haravikk swift-evolution at haravikk.me
Sat May 28 05:50:01 CDT 2016


I’m a +1 to this, this is something that keeps catching me out as I’m so used to omitting return in other closures, and that’s essentially all a computer property is anyway so it makes sense for the behaviour to be consistent.

> On 27 May 2016, at 18:57, 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!?
> 
> 
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