<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=""><div class="">The case partial functions are available in all closures, plus you still have the option to write your syntax based on the proposal with the only difference being the keyword of match vs switch.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">let str = match(state) {</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>case .Cold: “Too cold”</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>case .Hot: “Too hot”</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>default: “now it is just boring”</div><div class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">match just being a function that takes a value and a closure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2016-01-31, at 2:11:20, Radosław Pietruszewski via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I certainly would prefer if we could use switch (and if/else for that matter) as an expression, instead of some magic syntax usable in `map`. so:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">let str = switch(state) {</div> case .Cold: "Too cold"<br class=""> case .Hot: "Too hot"<br class=""> default: "Just right"<br class=""> }<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">— Radek</div>
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jan 2016, at 08:10, Paul Cantrell via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 29, 2016, at 1:01 AM, Charles Constant via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">I'm still +1 on this.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I would very much enjoy being able to do this:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div style="margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 25.6px;" class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.45; padding: 16px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; word-wrap: normal; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(167, 29, 93); min-height: 16px;" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span class="">let</span><span style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""> str = state.</span><span class="">map</span><span style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""> {</span><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)" class="">case</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)" class="">.</span>Cold: <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“Too cold”</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)" class=""><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>case</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)" class="">.</span>Hot: <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“Too hot”</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)" class=""><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>default</span>: <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“Just right”</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">}</span></font></div></pre></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The language currently allows this:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal;" class=""> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #323e7d" class="">let</span> str: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #587ea8" class="">String</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal;" class=""> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #323e7d" class="">switch</span>(<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #587ea8" class="">state</span>) {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal;" class=""> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #323e7d" class="">case</span> .Cold: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #587ea8" class="">str</span> = <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #843e64" class="">"Too cold"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal;" class=""> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #323e7d" class="">case</span> .Hot: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #587ea8" class="">str</span> = <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #843e64" class="">"Too hot"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal;" class=""> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #323e7d" class="">default</span>: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #587ea8" class="">str</span> = <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #843e64" class="">"Just right"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal;" class=""> }</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="">While that’s slightly noisier, I’m not convinced the minor additional concision justifies the substantial additional language complexity. I’m not even convinced the new syntax is clearer so much as cleverer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d need to see a much more compelling example to be in favor of this proposal.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>