> On 25 Mar 2016, at 08:10, Haravikk via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 24 Mar 2016, at 21:08, Howard Lovatt <howard.lov...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I use trailing closures all the time because I find the brackets too noisy, 
>> like ; at the end of a line is too noisy. The sort of code I use is:
>> 
>>     let foo = myArray
>>         .filter { $0 & 1 == 1 }
>>         .map { $0 + 1 }
>>         .reduce(0) { $0 + $1 } 
> 
> This doesn’t really seem much neater or more readable to me than:
> 
>       let foo = myArray
>               .filter({ $0 & 1 == 1 })
>               .map({ $0 + 1 })
>               .reduce(0, { $0 + $1 })
> 
> While they may add a small amount of noise, in the latter case the 
> parenthesis clarifies that each is a method, and what all of its arguments 
> are, and don’t use any custom syntax. Of course this assumes that .reduce() 
> would have an optional label on its closure argument.

On the other hand, I find the addition of the parenthesis makes it less 
readable than the one without. So please don't assume that what is equally 
readable for you applies to everyone else. 

Alex
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