With the implementation of your proposal, will there be anything that can be written in where clauses that cannot be written after a comma (in the context of guard statements specifically)? If not, does the where clause become entirely a stylistic flourish?<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:57 Erica Sadun &lt;<a href="mailto:erica@ericasadun.com">erica@ericasadun.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>There is no way I could figure out how to restrict Boolean assertions to mentioned variables therefore I left where clauses entirely untouched.</div><div>I&#39;d recommend people adopt in-house standards where Boolean assertions in where clauses should be semantically tied to the condition</div><div>clause that introduces them.</div><div><br></div><div>I will add this as a note.</div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>-- E</div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 24, 2016, at 9:29 AM, Xiaodi Wu &lt;<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br><div>Does this proposal distinguish between &quot;where clauses [...] restricted to a Boolean assertion tied to variables connected to the binding or pattern condition&quot; and &quot;unrelated Boolean assertions [that] should be allowed to stand on their own&quot;?<br><br>Or are both types of boolean assertions now permitted either following a comma or following a where clause?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:10 Erica Sadun via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Draft: <a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/74cfee56a597c0e0026a90ee4e49f160" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/erica/74cfee56a597c0e0026a90ee4e49f160</a><div><br></div><div><h1 style="font-size:2.25em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.2;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0px!important">Simplifying condition clauses and intermingling expressions with other conditions</h1><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>Proposal: TBD</li><li>Author: <a href="https://github.com/erica" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Erica Sadun</a></li><li>Status: TBD</li><li>Review manager: TBD</li></ul><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/74cfee56a597c0e0026a90ee4e49f160#introduction" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Introduction</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This proposal adjust Swift grammar to enable the arbitrary mix of expressions among conditions rather than constraining them before other conditions. Under this proposal, expressions are no longer limited to where clauses after the initial list of Boolean conditions.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Swift-evolution thread: <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/17926" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[Pitch] making where and , interchangeable in guard conditions</a></p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/74cfee56a597c0e0026a90ee4e49f160#motivation" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Motivation</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">There is no technical reason to disallow arbitrary mixes of binding, patterns, availability tests, and Boolean assertions within a single compound condition clause. Swift currently enforces a grammar that limits expressions to <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">where</code> clauses after the first non-Boolean condition clause has been mentioned. This rule means that all standalone Boolean tests must precede binding and pattern conditions and allows for code such as:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal"></pre></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">guard</span> 
    x <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">==</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">0</span>,
    <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> y <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">optional</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">where</span> z <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">==</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">2</span></pre></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal"> 
    <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">else</span> { <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">...</span> }</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In this example, the Boolean <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">z == 2</code> clause has no semantic relationship to the optional condition to which it&#39;s syntactically bound. Ideally, <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">where</code> clauses should be restricted to a Boolean assertion tied to variables connected to the binding or pattern condition. Unrelated Boolean assertions should be allowed to stand on their own</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If accepted, the following code would be legal, as would similar usage in <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">while</code> and <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">if</code> statements.</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">guard</span>
    x <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">==</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">0</span>,
    <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> y <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">optional</span>,
    z <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">==</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">2</span>
    <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">else</span> { <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">...</span> }</pre></div><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/74cfee56a597c0e0026a90ee4e49f160#detailed-design" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Detailed Design</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Under this proposal, condition lists are updated to accept a grammar along the following lines:</p></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">‌condition-list → condition | expression | condition , condition-list | expression, condition-list
</code></pre></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This enables <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">guard</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">while</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">repeat-while</code>, and <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">if</code> to adopt grammars like:</p><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">guard condition-list else code-block
while condition-list code-block
if condition-list code-block (else-clause)?
</code></pre><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><em>Note: A repeat-while statement does not use a condition list. Its grammar is <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">repeat code-block while expression</code></em></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This approach simplifies the current Swift grammar, which constructs condition clauses separately from condition lists and conditions. This extra work is needed to introduce an expression before condition lists and to allow an expression after availability checks:</p><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">condition-clause → expression
condition-clause → expression , condition-list
condition-clause → condition-list
condition-clause → availability-condition , expression
condition-list → condition | condition,condition-list
condition → availability-condition | case-condition | optional-binding-condition
</code></pre><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Beyond this high level change, all three conditions (availability conditions, case conditions, and optional binding conditions) remain unaffected as do their associated <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">where</code> clause grammar. This solution changes list construction not <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">where</code>clauses.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/74cfee56a597c0e0026a90ee4e49f160#impact-on-existing-code" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Impact on Existing Code</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This proposal does not affect existing code.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/74cfee56a597c0e0026a90ee4e49f160#alternatives-considered" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></a>Alternatives Considered</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The &quot;easiest&quot; solution that free interchange of commas with <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">where</code>, permits construction of statements like the following:</p></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// where-clause → (where | ,) where-expression</span>
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">for</span> i <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">in</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">0</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">...</span><span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">10</span>, i <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">%</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">2</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">==</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">0</span> { <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">print</span>(i) }</pre></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-bottom:0px!important">Adjusting the <code style="font-family:Consolas,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">where</code> clause in this way wouldn&#39;t introduce the ability to mix and match Boolean expressions, availability conditions, case conditions, and optional binding conditions in condition clauses, and is therefore discarded from consideration.</div></div><div style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,&#39;Segoe UI&#39;,Arial,freesans,sans-serif,&#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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