<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="">No one’s brought it up yet, but it seems totally reasonable. I’d even consider this a bug fix, not a real language change, but I’m not a core team member.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 26, 2016, at 00:15, Aleksandar Petrovic 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 id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Hi Swift community, I have a question.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">This is a valid Swift code:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">func testFunc(times: Int, fn: ((Int)->Void)? = nil) {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>guard let f = fn else { return }</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for i in 1 ..< times {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>f(i)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">And this is not:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">func testFunc(times: Int, @noescape fn: ((Int)->Void)? = nil) {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>guard let f = fn else { return }</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for i in 1 ..< times {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>f(i)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can't think of any hard reason why the @noescape parameter of the function can't be nullable (and, with default value, be optional), but maybe I'm missing something. Is there any plan to correct this in 3.0?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alex</div></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">swift-evolution mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>