<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="">There was a proposal not long ago floating around that there could be if and guard that would allow something like:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">guard myReallyLongOptionalName! else {</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>return</div><div class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/// Now myReallyLongOptionalName is guaranteed to be nonnull</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- OR --</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if myReallyLongOptionalName! {</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>doSomethingWith(myReallyLongOptionalName)</div><div class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2016, at 5:36 PM, James Campbell 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=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was wondering if people would be open to adding an unwrap method to the Optional type, I already have a method like this which shortens code for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">if let string = myReallyLongOptionalName {</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> doSomethingWith(string)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">}</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Could become"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="gmail_default">let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"</div><div class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default">myReallyLongOptionalName.unwrap {</div><div class="gmail_default"> doSomethingWith($0)</div><div class="gmail_default">}</div><div class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default">The block would only be fired if myReallyLongOptionalName has a value.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#cc0000" class="">___________________________________</font></b></p><p class=""><b class="">James⎥Head of Trolls</b></p><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#cc0000" class=""><a href="mailto:james@supmenow.com" target="_blank" style="cursor: url("chrome-extension://ledmjlnkdlappilhaaihfhanlpdjjalm/rockhand.png"), auto;" class="">james@supmenow.com</a>⎥<a href="http://supmenow.com/" target="_blank" class="">supmenow.com</a></font></b></p><p class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class="">Sup</font></b></p><p class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class="">Runway East
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