Guaranteed closure execution

But if the closure can escape it is difficult to guarantee that it is executed at all (e.g. in your examples such as dispatch_async).

-Thorsten

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Am 29. Januar 2016 um 11:58 schrieb Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution swift-evolution@swift.org:

You are right Jacob, a modifier @noescape(once) would be better, as it would help compiler distinguish between assignment and initialization of captured variables.

The utility of such a new feature is maybe tiny, but clear: it extends the opportunities to declare variables before initializing them. The Swift 1 to 2 transition has already extended those opportunities, so we’re just following an existing trend, here.

I actually think that once is orthogonal to noescape. There are a lot of closures that are not noescape, but are called exactly once, such as dispatch_async and most completion handlers.

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Yes, Thorsten.

Brent: I’m sorry if the title of the thread is not precise enough. The goal here is to let such a closure guarantee variable initialisation, as below:

  func f(@noescape(once) closure: () -> ()) {
      closure()
  }

  let x: Int // Not initialized
  f { x = 1 }
  print(x) // Guaranteed to be initialized

Such closure can not escape. Hence @noescape(once), not @once.

dispatch_sync() is often cited in this mailing list, and we all want that it declares its argument as @noescape. Now it would be even better if it would declare it as @noescape(once).

Gwendal

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Le 29 janv. 2016 à 13:11, Thorsten Seitz <tseitz42@icloud.com> a écrit :

But if the closure can escape it is difficult to guarantee that it is executed at all (e.g. in your examples such as dispatch_async).

-Thorsten

Am 29. Januar 2016 um 11:58 schrieb Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org>:

You are right Jacob, a modifier `@noescape(once)` would be better, as it would help compiler distinguish between assignment and initialization of captured variables.

The utility of such a new feature is maybe tiny, but clear: it extends the opportunities to declare variables before initializing them. The Swift 1 to 2 transition has already extended those opportunities, so we’re just following an existing trend, here.

I actually think that `once` is orthogonal to `noescape`. There are a *lot* of closures that are not noescape, but are called exactly once, such as dispatch_async and most completion handlers.

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