[swift-users] @noescape

Nate Birkholz nbirkholz at gmail.com
Mon May 16 11:43:05 CDT 2016


Well that was where I was going next, heh.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Jens Alfke <jens at mooseyard.com> wrote:

>
> On May 16, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Nate Birkholz via swift-users <
> swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>
> I understand how @noescape works, and some of its benefits, I *think*, but
> if I am correct, it almost seems like it should be added automatically to
> my closure definitions until it becomes clear that the closure has to
> escape its context, much like I tend to declare variables as `let` until it
> becomes clear I need a `var`.
>
>
> IIRC, there is a current proposal to change the language in exactly that
> way — i.e. to have noescape be the default and use an attribute like
> “@escapes” to declare that a closure can be stored by the callee and called
> later.
>
> —Jens
>



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Nate Birkholz
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