One question first: Have you thought of user trying to do
let object.someProperty
?
The syntax looks like a nice shortcut at the first glance, but we shouldn't
forget that there is already a different shortcut involved in many of those
assignments:
self.foo...
> But, “if let foo = foo {}” makes no sense to anybody but people familiar with
> swift already.
I've to agree on that — imho the syntax isn't very intuitive.
But it has the advantage to make clear that you declare a new value with the
name "foo" (without explaining why that new foo has a different type despite
using the normal assignment operator… I wonder if there has been a discussion
about something like "?=")
For me everything boils down that we as programmers put a lot of stress on
those tiny equal signs (to bad our natural language evolved in the way it did
;-), but that's life, and we know how to deal with it.
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