<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 7, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Ezekiel Elin via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> 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="">Is there any way for me to identify what value is/will be returned by the function in a defer block<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">here’s some example code</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">func</span> someFunction() -> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #703daa" class="">Int</span> {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">defer</span> {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 132, 0);" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span>//Can I get the "5" that I'm returning here?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> }</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(187, 44, 162);" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span>return<span style="" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">5</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">}</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Not implicitly. You could do something like this:</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div>var returnValue: Int?</div><div>defer { use(returnValue!) }</div><div><br class=""></div><div>...</div><div>returnValue = 5</div><div>return returnValue!</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>though that's obviously not ideal.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Joe</div><br class=""></body></html>