<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’d prefer if-expressions to have the same form as if-statements, i.e.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">let greeting = if let name = optionalName { "Hello, \(name),“ } else { “To Whom It May Concern:” }</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Thorsten</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS: As an aside this could also be written without an if-expression as follows:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">let greeting = name.map(„Hello, \($0),“) ?? “To Whom It May Concern:”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With regards to the question about the required else part: <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 06.12.2015 um 01:12 schrieb Alex Lew via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">let greeting = “Hello, \(name),” if let name = optionalName else “To Whom It May Concern:”</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>