<div dir="ltr">This may do what you want:<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> <span style="color:rgb(187,44,162)">let</span> values: [<span style="color:rgb(112,61,170)">Int</span>] = [<span style="color:rgb(39,42,216)">1</span>,<span style="color:rgb(39,42,216)">2</span>,<span style="color:rgb(39,42,216)">3</span>,<span style="color:rgb(39,42,216)">4</span>]</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> <span style="color:rgb(187,44,162)">if</span> <span style="color:rgb(187,44,162)">let</span> sequence = <span style="color:rgb(49,89,93)">nonEmptySequence</span>(<span style="color:rgb(79,129,135)">values</span>) {</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> <span style="color:rgb(187,44,162)">for</span> element <span style="color:rgb(187,44,162)">in</span> sequence {</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> <span style="color:rgb(61,29,129)">print</span>(<span style="color:rgb(209,47,27)">"element: </span>\<span style="color:rgb(209,47,27)">(</span>element<span style="color:rgb(209,47,27)">)"</span>)</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> }</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> }</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> <span style="color:rgb(187,44,162)">else</span> {</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> <span style="color:rgb(61,29,129)">print</span>(<span style="color:rgb(209,47,27)">"empty!"</span>)</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">
</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> }</p></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><br></p>It's also more flexible, you can do work after the for loop (that work won't execute in the else), you can also use PeekSequence directly to get the first value. This is handy for something like an average (reduce) where you don't necessarily have a zero value.</div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><br></p>The implementation can be found here: <a href="https://github.com/therealbnut/PeekSequence">https://github.com/therealbnut/PeekSequence</a></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Matthew Johnson 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"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><span class=""><div><br>On Jan 25, 2016, at 3:41 AM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div>It would be easy enough to add:</div><div><br></div><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;width:auto;list-style:none"><li style="text-indent:0px;border-left-style:none;margin-left:4em;padding-bottom:0px!important"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">func</code> <code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">forEach</code><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">(</code></span></font></li><li style="text-indent:0px;border-left-style:none;margin-left:4em;padding-bottom:0px!important"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important"> @</code><code 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style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">: (</code><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">Element</code><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">) </code><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">throws<font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"> -> Void</font></code><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">,</code></span></font></li><li style="text-indent:0px;border-left-style:none;margin-left:4em;padding-bottom:0px!important"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important"> @noescape otherwise otherwise: () throws -> Void</code></span></font></li><li style="text-indent:0px;border-left-style:none;margin-left:4em;padding-bottom:0px!important"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">) </code><code style="padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;min-height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">rethrows</code></span></font></li></ul><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace">to the standard library or write it yourself.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Not unless / until we get the ability for a noescape closure to influence control flow (break, return, etc). Even then this is clunkier than adding else to the language would be.</div><div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br>On 23 Jan 2016, at 12:59 PM, Félix Cloutier via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I frequently need something like that and I'd like to have it in Swift too.<br><div>
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