Swift Regret: Subscript Trailing Closures

Part of the Swift Regrets series.

Wait, “subscript trailing closures”? What? Well…take a look at SR-6157.

Remember how I said subscript indexes have all the fancy features of function arguments? We implemented that by having them share code in the parser, where calls look for () and subscripts for []. And we forgot to turn off the trailing closure part for subscripts. That’s it.

I think everything else on this list so far has been a case where I wish we made a different decision about something. But there was no decision here. It’s a bug that turned into a compatibility issue that wasn’t important enough to deprecate/error on.

This entry was posted on September 17, 2021 and is filed under Technical. Tags: Swift, Swift regrets