[swift-evolution] Rekindling: "Extending declaration scope to condition for `repeat { } while ()"

[Michael Savich]

It recently occurred to me how nice it would be to be if we could avoid declaring variables outside of loops that are only used inside them. I used google’s site specific search (is that the canon way to search swift-evo?) and only found one thread about this, (https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160718/024657.html <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160718/024657.html>) where from what I could see it got a positive reception.

It would be a special case though, and within an unrelated thread I saw this suggestion (https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001201.html <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001201.html>) of letting you write a variable declaration in between the repeat keyword and the opening bracket. Personally I prefer this syntax.

Regardless, I’m wondering what happened to this thread? Is there a reason it didn’t get proposed? If the answer is that the discussion simply died down it may be worth revisiting it.

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