<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="">The closure should go on the end though…<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 17, 2017, at 8:40 AM, Christopher Kornher 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="">We might as well add the index to the call so elements can be created from other lists, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">&nbsp;Array(repeatedlyCalling: { (index:Int) in MyView( forIndex:index ) }, count: 3) // This might by syntactically correct...</div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 17, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Rob Mayoff 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=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Robert Bennett 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 dir="auto" class=""><div class=""></div><div class="">Alternatively, instead of replacing the current definition with an autoclosure version, we could leave the current version in place and add a version taking a function. This could be especially useful when you’ve defined a function like `makeMySpecialKindOfButton() -&gt; UIButton` that does a lot of customization to an object before returning it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Array(repeating: { return UIView() }, count: 3)</div><div class="">and</div><div class="">Array(repeating: <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">makeMySpecialKindOfButton, count: 3)</span></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is still source-breaking, because an array of closures is legal. We need a different name to avoid breaking source:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; Array(repeatedlyCalling: { UIView() }, count: 3)</div><div class="">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div>
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