<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">Haravikk, this *is* the proposal for removing where clauses; changing the rules about commas was the later addition to the discussion.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 06:55 Haravikk via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 28 May 2016, at 23:48, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 27, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Joe Groff <<a href="mailto:jgroff@apple.com" target="_blank">jgroff@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello Swift community,<br><br>The review of SE-0099 “Restructuring Condition Clauses” begins now and runs through June 3, 2016. The proposal is available here:<br><br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0099-conditionclauses.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0099-conditionclauses.md</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Thanks everyone. FYI, Erica and I discussed it offlist and agreed to amend the proposal: now you can use semicolons or a newline to separate clauses of different types.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>While I like the improvements made to the proposal, I’m still not in favour of removing the where clause; the introduction of semi-colons and new-lines as separators eliminates the need to use it if you don’t want to, so developers will be free to drop it if they wish, but I don’t see any real reason to remove it from the syntax, as it feels inconsistent if I can use it elsewhere, and I prefer to do so, particularly on if/guard.</div><div><br></div><div>I get that there’s some inconsistency between the use of where on while and for loops, but actually the behaviour on while loops can be desirable, and I feel the ambiguity could be addressed in other ways. I feel like removing or changing the where clause should be its own issue, and this one should be focused on removing the ambiguity caused by the use of commas, as anyone that wants semi-colons but also likes to use where is forced to oppose the whole proposal as they’re not mutually exclusive.</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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