<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="">fatalError has defaults for its arguments so it can be used as a nullary unreachable function already.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~Robert Widmann<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 3, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Ben Rimmington via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; 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=""><div class="">Instead of using `fatalError(_:file:line:)` in `default` cases, would a public `unreachable()` function be more efficient?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">e.g. &lt;<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2379" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2379</a>&gt;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- Ben</div></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Oct 2016, at 18:50, João Pinheiro via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; 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="">-1 from me too.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Avoiding having to write "default: break" isn't a good justification to introduce new syntax. It would make the understanding of case switches harder without providing any real benefit for the syntax bloat.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">João Pinheiro</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 03 Oct 2016, at 19:41, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">-1 from me as well. This suggestion falls into the same category as those about making `else` optional after `guard`, which is repeatedly rejected. Since code is read more often than written, explicit handling of the default case never hurts and can increase clarity. Not having to write `default: break` offers no help in writing correct code and IMO can't justify new syntax or the changing of a well-known control statement.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Robert Widmann via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;</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="">-1 in general.&nbsp; I want smarter exhaustiveness analysis, but I don’t want to be able to ignore cases that “can’t happen” (so say we, writer of bugs) when they’re clearly in the domain of possible values that can be fed to a switch-case.&nbsp; Exhaustiveness guarantees wellformedness of a program that does happen to go wrong, and makes it much easier to verify the correctness of the flow of control of the containing block because all points from the switch must be covered.&nbsp; We also don’t have the type-level tools to convince the checker to allow you to remove unreachable cases.&nbsp; If it’s really a problem that you are writing default cases everywhere, just bailout in a fatal error with a nice description.&nbsp; It never hurts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~Robert Widmann</div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="">On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:14 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="m_237158121097854913Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="m_237158121097854913bloop_markdown" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><p style="margin:15px 0px" class="">I know that there is this note in<span class="m_237158121097854913Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/ap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eft-radius:3px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);color:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:normal;word-wrap:normal">switch someValue {
     
case …:
    // Do something
     
case …:
    // Do something else

default:  
    () // useless nop; do nothing when no pattern matched
}

// VS:

if case … {
     
} else if case … {
     
} else if case … {
     
} // No need for `else`
</code></pre><p style="margin:15px 0px" class="">Can’t we make<span class="m_237158121097854913Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><code style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:10pt;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);color:inherit;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;word-break:normal;word-wrap:normal" class="">default</code><span class="m_237158121097854913Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>optional, or at least on non-enum values?</p><div style="margin:15px 0px" class=""><br class="m_237158121097854913webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="m_237158121097854913bloop_original_html" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><div id="m_237158121097854913bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0px" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div id="m_237158121097854913bloop_sign_1475484692455256832" class="m_237158121097854913bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px" class="">--&nbsp;<br class="">Adrian Zubarev<br class="">Sent with Airmail</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></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=""></div></div></body></html>