Scott Richmond

### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/thebasics#Providing-a-Fallback-Value https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/basicoperators#Nil-Coalescing-Operator ### Description With respect to the right operand of the nil-coalescing operator, it is referred to as default value in three subsections and as the fallback...

### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/expressions#Literal-Expression https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/statements#Line-Control-Statement ### Description #line, #file, #file, #fileID, and #filePath are no longer special literals. They are freestanding macro expressions. The text should be revised accordingly. ### Correction...

Add a glossary and index of concepts

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### Location It is proposed that this glossary be placed in the book between the _Language Reference_ and the _Revision History_. ### Description Attached is a proof-of-concept PDF version of...

Conflicting info about when to write `override` and `required`

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### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/initialization#Required-Initializers https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/protocols#Class-Implementations-of-Protocol-Initializer-Requirements ### Description In the _Required Initializers_ subsection, the second sentence of the second paragraph reads: > You don’t write the `override` modifier when overriding a `required`...

### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/controlflow#Value-Bindings ### Description The first sentence of the pentultimate paragraph in the Language Guide's _Value Bindings_ subsection reads: After the temporary constants are declared, they can be used...

### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/controlflow#Fallthrough ### Description In three instances in the _Fallthrough_ subsection, the term **fallthrough keyword** is given instead of **fallthrough statement**. While fallthough is a keyword, in each of...

### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/controlflow#Checking-API-Availability https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/statements#Availability-Condition ### Description In the Language Guide _Checking API Availability_ subsection, at the beginning of the third paragraph the text states: You can use an availability condition...

### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/controlflow#Labeled-Statements https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/errorhandling#Handling-Errors-Using-Do-Catch https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/statements#Break-Statement ### Description Xcode permits do statements to be labeled and to have labeled breaks therein (although not unlabeled breaks). No mention of this is given...

### Location https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/patterns https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/patterns#Enumeration-Case-Pattern https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/patterns#Type-Casting-Patterns https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/patterns#Expression-Pattern ### Description There are two potential issues in the _Patterns_ section. The first is the statement in four locations that certain patterns may only...

### Location Between https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/genericparametersandarguments and https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/summaryofthegrammar ### Description It is proposed that the attached be added as the final subsection of the language reference prior to _Summary of the Grammar_....