# \[Pitch\] Last expression as return value

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**Created:** [January 2, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-last-expression-as-return-value/76958 "2025-01-02T00:37:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joe\_Groff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/joe_groff/32/1929_2.png) [@Joe\_Groff](https://forums.swift.org/u/Joe_Groff)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-last-expression-as-return-value/76958/300 "2025-01-10T19:01:27Z")

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Immediately-applied closures and local functions are at most a function call; they should never allocate a closure. In optimized builds, since they are generally single-use private functions, they should normally be inlined as well.

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