[swift-users] Why this can't compile

[Neil Faiman]

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 11:03 PM, boris via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> //Report Error: Ambiguous reference to member ‘map’ 
> //    
> numbers.map({
>     (number: Int) in
>         var ret = 3 * number
>         return ret
> })

I asked the same question a few months ago; the answer was that it is a deliberate design choice that you can only omit the return type from a single-expression closure (and that the error message is less than helpful). For example, Jordan Rose offered this explanation:

> Swift very deliberately does not infer types across multiple statements in closure bodies. This is mostly an implementation restriction (our type-checking system can't handle it very well), but it's also a simple rule that explains the implementation restriction, rather than having type inference in closure bodies working some of the time but not all.
> 
> As Chris pointed out, the compiler could definitely do a better job communicating the problem, but actually changing the behavior here would require significant implementation work. So this is not considered a "bug", just an implementation-driven design choice.

Regards,

	Neil Faiman
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