[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Make `return` optional in computed properties for a single case
David Hart
davidhart at fastmail.com
Sat May 28 03:09:51 CDT 2016
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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