Right now, if you look at the grammar, it's pretty hard to follow and special 
cased. 
I think if people follow an intentional pattern of a condition per line 
(including where clauses)
they won't get in trouble. (Also Swift is a lot smarter about inadvertent = vs 
==)

-- E


> On May 24, 2016, at 11:59 AM, Austin Zheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I like the idea in principle.
> 
> However, right now you can write something like:
> 
> if let a = optionalA, frob = fooBarBaz() { ... }
> 
> It's clear that both clauses are optional binding clauses.
> 
> With this change, it's not clear anymore whether the second clause is an 
> optional binding clause, or a logic test erroneously using '=' instead of 
> '=='.
> 
> To be fair, though, since assignment in Swift doesn't return the new value as 
> it does in C, there is far less room for disastrous bugs caused by this sort 
> of mistake.
> 
> Austin
> 

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