> On May 13, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Joe Groff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 13, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a technical reason that Swift cannot be expanded to allow arbitrary 
>> mixes of conditional binding and boolean assertions within a single compound 
>> guard statement?
> 
> No. You already can, we just have the somewhat strange rule that to separate 
> `guard` conditions uses `,` before optional or pattern conditions, but 
> `where` before boolean conditions:
> 
>       guard x == 0,
>         let y = optional where
>         z == 2 {
>       }
> 
> There's no technical reason we couldn't accept either 'where' or ',' 
> consistently.
> 
> -Joe

Is it worth a proposal to allow both, for when the where clauses don't have to 
be semantically tied to the conditional binding?

-- E

/ccing  in Mike Ash so he can gloat

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