> On May 2, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On May 1, 2016, at 13:09, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Pattern binding for optionals will look like: >>> >>> if let x? = y { ... } >> >> I suggested precisely this in February. The core team shot it down: >> >>> We tried this* and got a lot of negative feedback. Optionals are unwrapped >>> too often for people to be comfortable writing "if let name? = >>> optionalCondition". >> >> >> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160201/008964.html >> >> Having said that, this still seems like a good idea to me, but they're the >> ones with implementation experience; all I have is an elegant idea. > > Yeah, as nice as it sounds, it didn’t work out in practice. I’ll add it to > the frequently-suggested list.
Yeah. My take on it is that 'if let' was probably a mistake, but once we made it, it was really hard to back out. John. _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
