<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’ve written enough Ruby code to appreciate these keywords and believe they are worth adding the keywords. I know others don’t agree and that the Swift team considered this earlier and did not add them for the exact reason you stated. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think it would be good to get a read on where the community stands. I’m not sure which opinion is in the majority.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 12, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Al Skipp <<a href="mailto:al_skipp@fastmail.fm" class="">al_skipp@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">If at all possible I think it’s best to avoid adding keywords to the language. Instead of ‘unless', you could do: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">public func not(bool: Bool) -> Bool { return !bool }</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if not(condition) { print("condition was false") }</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Not terrible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Dec 2015, at 15:48, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I’m not sure about the single line aspect of this proposal, but I am a big proponent of “unless” and “until” as complements to “if” and “while”. They greatly improve readability over "if !(expression)” and “while !(expression)” IMHO.</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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;"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 12, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Arthur Ariel Sabintsev via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">For your specific example, I'd 100% use the guard statement. It achieves the same result.<br class=""><br class="">-1 from me.<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 9:43 AM J. Cheyo Jimenez via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="">-1 from me. I think I would rather have an if-then expression that would handle both False and True cases. <div class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001944.html" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001944.html</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, in most cases I feel that guard would be a better choice. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:39 AM, James Campbell via swift-evolution<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">I propose adding the unless and if statements from ruby.<br class=""><br class="">Return false if james = nil<br class=""><br class="">This returns false if the variable James is nil<br class="">. 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