[swift-evolution] Property Getter Return Statement

[Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky]

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has been brought up on the list before. For instance:
>
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/608
>
> Chris Lattner’s response at that time was:
>
> ‘Just MHO, but I consider this syntactic sugar, not a fundamental feature
> that fits the goal of Swift 4 stage 2.
>
> ‘I’m also pretty opposed to doing it at any time. The rationale of
> “implicit return” in closures is specifically because they are limited to a
> single expression, which makes the semantics “obvious”. This was carefully
> considered.’


This objection is not applicable, because we are discussing the possibility
to omit “return” exactly when there is a single expression in the getter.

Nevin
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