> On Jul 12, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Taras Zakharko <taras.zakha...@uzh.ch> wrote:
>
> I’d love to see goto in Swift, but on the other hand, do {} with labels have
> so far been sufficient for any practical problem I encountered so far. Goto
> is much more useful in languages like C, which lack nested functions and
> other abstraction mechanisms.
>
> Of course, I wouldn’t try to write a high-performance interpreter in Swift
> any time soon.
*Sigh*.
Erica was making a joke. There shall be no ‘goto’ in Swift.
- Doug
>
> — T
>
>> On 12 Jul 2016, at 18:07, Leonardo Pessoa via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'd agree with Doug, completely out of scope. The only way I'd support
>> a goto statement was to jump to another switch case as in C#.
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>> On 12 July 2016 at 12:49, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution
>>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 4:49 PM, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> As for all of the other additive changes, I would strongly prefer you to
>>> *wait* on even proposing or discussing these things until after the Swift
>>> 3.0 evolution cycle is done. Not only is it distracting for the community,
>>> but the core team and many others won’t be be able to even read the thread
>>> or the responses, thus your discussion cycle will be lacking key input.
>>>
>>> On this topic, we specifically discussed this when labeled breaks were being
>>> designed, and when they were expanded to “do” in Swift 2. We specifically
>>> decided to allow break but not continue, because we didn’t want these
>>> control flow statements to be “another way to spell a loop”.
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> So I can take it as a given that this is out of scope for Swift 3 too?
>>>
>>> https://gist.github.com/erica/a78045d09fa5bb20e6e566295140c84d
>>>
>>>
>>> No, *that* is out of scope for *Swift*.
>>>
>>> - Doug
>>>
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