<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 26, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Howard Lovatt 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 dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">It would be easy to provide a fixit.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>That is still a source breaking change that requires migration, though.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> How often are they actually used? I rarely use them and all my use cases could be a closure instead. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Also see Mike Kluev example; local functions are arguably worse than closures in all cases (provided that you can appropriately annotate the function type).</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div class="">Closures cannot replace all uses of local functions. Local functions can be recursive, and have a generic parameter list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Slava</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> -- Howard.<br class=""></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 October 2017 at 12:26, Slava Pestov <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:spestov@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">spestov@apple.com</a>></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;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><span class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 26, 2017, at 4:45 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_8201084941564550245Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;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;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">Rather than expand local function syntax why not deprecate local functions completely</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></span><div class="">I don’t think at this point such a drastic change to the language is likely to happen.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Slava</div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div>
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