<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’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”. &nbsp;They greatly improve readability over "if !(expression)” and “while !(expression)” IMHO.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 12, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Arthur Ariel Sabintsev via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; 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 &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">-1 from me.&nbsp; I think I would rather have an if-then expression that would handle both False and True cases.&nbsp;<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.&nbsp;<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 dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I propose adding the unless and if statements from ruby.<br class="">
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Return false if james = nil<br class="">
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This returns false if the variable James is nil<br class="">
. This line does it unless james is nil:<br class="">
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Return false unless james = nil<br class="">
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This has been really handy when working in ruby, reduces lines and pyramids of doom<br class="">
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