<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br>[[iOS messageWithData:ideas] broadcast]</div><div><br>On 26 Apr 2016, at 07:28, David Owens II via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class=""><b class="">What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br class=""></b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class="">I reluctantly agree with the proposal with the following caveat: I do not agree with the rationale to support being able to choose to omit the () for the parameter list of the closure declaration.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class="">I see no cohesive argument that says that the parens should be required in some cases but not in others when talking about parameter lists.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class="">I believe the proposal should be amended that the following should be the only allowable forms:</div></blockquote><br><div>Agreed, the exception for the parameter list in a closure declaration should be gone too potentially, I do not see a very convincing case why we should keep it. Does it solve some particular problem now in its current form?</div></body></html>