self is no longer required in many places

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self is no longer required in many places | Changes in Swift 5.3

self is no longer required in many places

Available from Swift 5.3

SE-0269 (apple/swift-evolution) allows us to stop using self in many places where it isn’t necessary. Prior to this change, we’d need to write self. in any closure that referenced self so we were making our capture semantics explicit, however often it was the case that our closure could not result in a reference cycle, meaning that the self was just clutter.

For example, before this change we would write code like this:

struct OldContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        List(1..<5) { number in
            self.cell(for: number)
        }
    }

    func cell(for number: Int) -> some View {
        Text("Cell \(number)")
    }
}

That call to self.cell(for:) cannot cause a reference cycle, because it’s being used inside a struct. Thanks to SE-0269, we can now write the same code like this:

struct NewContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        List(1..<5) { number in
            cell(for: number)
        }
    }

    func cell(for number: Int) -> some View {
        Text("Cell \(number)")
    }
}