[swift-evolution] Shorthand unwrap proposal

[Tim Vermeulen]

I would love to be able to do something like

doSomething(with: myOptional?)

which would be equivalent to

if let myValue = myOptional {
    doSomething(with: myValue)
}

But it’s been discussed here before, and I don’t think people were very enthusiastic about it.

> I was wondering if people would be open to adding an unwrap method to the Optional type,I already have a method like this which shortens code for me.
> 
> So this:
> 
> let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"
> 
> if let string = myReallyLongOptionalName {
> doSomethingWith(string)
> }
> 
> Could become"
> 
> let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"
> 
> myReallyLongOptionalName.unwrap {
> doSomethingWith($0)
> }
> 
> The block would only be fired if myReallyLongOptionalName has a value.
> 
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