[swift-evolution] ternary operator ?: suggestion

[Craig Cruden]

I was thinking about this a bit, and was thinking that maybe we would not need a new keyword at all but just use `map` with pattern matching `case` clauses.  It would mean adding `map` to individual values — or anything that we might want to use as input for matching.  

Reference scala (section 8.5) pattern matching: http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaReference.pdf <http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaReference.pdf>

In scala inside `map` and `filter` (unfortunately not on things like `reduceLeft` or `foldLeft` you can specify pattern matching anonymous functions as such:

val num = List(1, 5, 7)

num.map {
  case x if x < 5 => x + 1
  case x => x - 1
}

output: List(2, 4, 6)

So if the pattern matching was added (I don’t believe Swift currently allows case classes in maps - but then I am rather junior in the language) Swift would not need a `match expression` it would simply be part of map and become something like:

let commission = trade.map {
	case .Buy(let quantity, let price) where Double(quantity) * price > 10000 in
    		Double(quantity) * price * vipCommissionRate / 100
	case .Buy(let quantity, let price):
    		Double(quantity) * price * commissionRate / 100
	case .Sell(let quantity, let price) where Double(quantity) * price > 10000:
    		Double(quantity) * price * vipCommissionRate / 100
	case .Sell(let quantity, let price):
    		Double(quantity) * price * commissionRate / 100
}




> 
> But if we go with brackets then I would recommend something like this: 
> 
> let commission = match (trade) {
> case .Buy(let quantity, let price) where Double(quantity) * price > 10000:
>     Double(quantity) * price * vipCommissionRate / 100
> case .Buy(let quantity, let price):
>     Double(quantity) * price * commissionRate / 100
> case .Sell(let quantity, let price) where Double(quantity) * price > 10000:
>     Double(quantity) * price * vipCommissionRate / 100
> case .Sell(let quantity, let price):
>     Double(quantity) * price * commissionRate / 100
> }

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