<div dir="ltr">+1 fwiw<div><br></div><div>Grr, I hate braces so much I can't even... but I've seen this discussed on the Apple dev forums. It's not going to happen. I think the best we (those of us who dislike braces) can ever hope for is that Xcode gives us a way to view our code in the IDE as though braces didn't exists - even if the underlying file uses them, and probably the clipboard so that the outside world can have "one way" of writing Swift. I doubt that will happen either, but it seems far more likely to me than that Swift will suddenly do a 180 on something I'm sure Chris and the rest considered at length already.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Alexander Regueiro via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Has anyone considered removing braces from the Swift language? The main alternative would be indentation-based scoping like in Python or Ruby. There already seems to be a general emphasis on conciseness, lack of redundancy, and a modern syntax. e.g. semicolons are not required for single-line statements; brackets have been removed from if/for/while expressions, compared to C-style syntax. So, why not go the whole way in breaking the C-style connection? The present syntax seems to be shunning C, but only slightly.<br>
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