How about something like this? <br><div><br></div>let result = if bool return 1 else 2<br><br><br><br>On Monday, December 7, 2015, Cameron Knight via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Why not use a keyword? What if, the keyword 'returning' (or something like that) was used to specify the control flow behavior.</div><div><br></div><div>// Replaces ternary operator</div><div>let paint.color = returning if door.color == .Red { .Black } else { door.color }</div><div><br></div><div>// Supports additional conditions</div><div>let paint.finish = returning switch paint.color {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>case .Black:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>.Matte</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>case .White:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>.Eggshell</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>default:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>.Gloss</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>// Removes ambiguity of single statement behavior</div><div>let ages: [Int] = people.map returning { $0.age }</div><div><br></div><div>// Perhaps overreaching a bit</div><div>let label = returning UILabel(frame: CGRect.zero) {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>.text = "Hello World"</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>.color = UIColor.red</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>I think it adds clarity without too much syntax bloat. I haven't thought out all the corner cases though, so maybe I'm missing something obvious.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 6, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution@swift.org');" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 6, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Per Melin <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','p@greendale.se');" target="_blank">p@greendale.se</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Chris Lattner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clattner@apple.com');" target="_blank">clattner@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Further, it is important to consider whether the code written using this will actually be *better* than the code written with these things as statements. For example, the “switch” blocks tend to be very large, and turning them into expressions encourages additional indentation.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you give functions implicit return at the same time – as in Haskell, Erlang, Scala, Rust, Ruby, Lisp/Scheme/Clojure, etc – there would be no need for additional indentation half of the time.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This isn’t something that I’m personally interested in. I think that it is *feature* of swift that statements an declarations start with keywords. This greatly simplifies the grammar in various ways, and allows declmodifiers to be introduced without taking keywords space. </div><div><br></div><div>For example, relevant to this proposal, if/when we support “tail return foo()" for example, you don’t want to take “tail” as a keyword to make “tail foo()” work.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Not even Slava Pestov would factor Swift that aggressively.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Underestimating Slava is not a good idea! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div></div><br>
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