[swift-evolution] Proposal: Add syntactic sugar for iterating over an Optional<SequenceType>

[Marco Masser]

>
> This topic has come up in internal discussions several times.  We’ve
> discussed adding new features to for/in loop to handle it, having something
> like “in?” as you suggest:
>

Glad to hear I didn't miss anything obvious!


etc.  However, the discussion kept coming back to the fact that we have a
> pretty trivial way to express this already:
>
> I know this is a very minor thing and it can be worked around easily by
> code like this:
>
> for object in array ?? [] {
>     …
> }
>
>
> Thus this isn’t really solving a big problem, and making the language more
> complex isn’t worth it.
>

 I suspected as much. Thanks for taking the time to look over it!
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