<div dir="ltr">It's a "capture list": <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH20-ID56" target="_blank">https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH20-ID56</a><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jacob Bandes-Storch<br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Jeff Kelley via swift-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Just looking for a technical term here: what is <font face="Menlo">[weak self]</font> at the beginning of a closure? An annotation? Thanks in advance!</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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