<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m against everything here. It’s universally worse, in my view.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Dec 2015, at 10:05, James Campbell <<a href="mailto:james@supmenow.com" class="">james@supmenow.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I don't think either are that nice, we could do a ruby thing and use "do". The do expresses that we are passing in a block :) and the arguments are on the outside of the closure which matches iit elsewhere:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">heyThere() do |hi, there|</div><div class="">{</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">we could allow anon functions like so:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">heyThere((hi, there){</div><div class="">})</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But then its inconsistent, so I don't mind what swift does now :) as its consistent whether its a closure block or a argument we are passing in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regarding the "=>" vs "in" debate, they are both obtuse to me. In some-ways "in" is better as it reads to me as "the arguments in this closure" so I would much prefer "in". I know this is subjective but that's just my two cents ;)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">love trailing closures</span></div></blockquote></div>I wouldn't go that far and just say "})" looks ugly — but that has the same implications ;-)<div class="">With parameters, trailing closures loose a lot of their appeal, and an alternative syntax ("func(x: Int) {" instead of "{ x: Int in}" isn't that bad for trailing closure either.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The only obvious downside is the "$0" shortcut would be confusing with "func() {" (but not so much with "func {"…).</div><div class="">Speaking of "$0", you could argue why it is allowed in closures and not in methods… but I'm in some discord with $0 anyways:</div><div class="">It is really nice for small constructs, but drawing the line when to discourage their use is tough (at least to tough for the compiler to enforce a rule).</div>
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