<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">What do you mean, limited to variables? What about a computed property? You will have the same problem.<br><br>I'm not sure where you want to go with this, given that the core team has considered the same idea in the past and found these issues to have no good solution.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 04:56 Justin Jia <<a href="mailto:justin.jia.developer@gmail.com">justin.jia.developer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div style="direction:inherit">IMO I don't this bar should be evaluated unless we decide if let can accept non-optional values. </div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit">Actually, what if we allow if let to accept non-optional values?</div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I agree this is confusing at the beginning. But people who are not familiar with the detail design can avoid this situation easily. People who are familiar with the design can adopt it quickly. Sometimes, this is unavoidable. </span></div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div><div style="direction:inherit">Btw, do you think this is still something nice to have if we limit this syntax to only variables?</div></div><div dir="auto"><div><div style="direction:inherit"><br></div>On Aug 15, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Xiaodi Wu <<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Xiaodi Wu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Justin Jia via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><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"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 15, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Charlie Monroe <<a href="mailto:charlie@charliemonroe.net" target="_blank">charlie@charliemonroe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The example above was to better demonstrate the problem with *when* to evaluate the latter argument. Why should both arguments be evaluated *before* the if statement? If both calls return Optionals, </div><span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">if let x = bar(42), y = baz(42) { ... }</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div></span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">is how would I write it without the suggested syntax - baz(42) will *not* be evaluated if bar(42) returns nil. Which bears a question why would </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">foo(bar(42)?, baz(42)?) </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">evaluate both arguments even if the first one is nil, making it incosistent with the rest of the language?</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I see your point. I understand that maybe 1/2 of the people think we should evaluate both arguments and 1/2 of the people think we should only evaluate the first argument.</div><div><br></div><div>I changed my idea a little bit. Now I think you are right. We should only evaluate the first argument in your example. It’s not only because of inconsistent, but also because the language should at least provide a way to “short-circuit” to rest of the arguments.</div><span><div><br></div><div>If they want to opt-out this behavior, they can always write:</div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div>let x = bar(42)</div><div>let y = baz(42)</div></span><div>foo(x?, y?)</div><div>```</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Well, that was just the easy part. Now, suppose bar is the function that isn't optional.</div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div>foo(bar(42), baz(42)?)</div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div>Is bar evaluated if baz returns nil? If you want this syntax to be sugar for if let, then the answer is yes.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>s/yes/no/</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>If short-circuiting works left-to-right, then the answer is no.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>s/no/yes/ </div><div><br></div><div>(See? Confusing.)</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>This is very confusing, and there is no good intuitive answer. <br></div><span><div><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></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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