<div dir="ltr">2) "then" would serve a way to differentiate the If statement and an if expression.<div><br></div><div>1) I think that making an if-then expression would be less problematic than making all if else statements into expressions. It was really easy for rust to just drop ?: because they already had *if* as an expression but in swift the *if* is a statement. </div><div>In swift we have if let and if case; adding if then to handle ternary operations is probably no so bad. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Andrey Tarantsov via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I actually agree; I like 'then' in CoffeeScript which is used for the same purpose there.<br>
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1) this is a bigger change than just a ternary operator<br>
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2) if we add "then", I believe that both forms should be acceptable for both kinds of IF statements<br>
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