<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You can do something like this:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">someOptionalCollection?.forEach { item in</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>item.doSomething()</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">}</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">(someOptionalCollection as? [SomeType])?.forEach { item in</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>item.doSomething()</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">}</font></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 9, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Rick Mann via swift-users &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Is there any concise way to write the following?<br class=""><br class="">if let collection = someOptionalCollection<br class="">{<br class=""> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for item in collection<br class=""> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br class=""> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">I can imagine more complicated things, too:<br class=""><br class="">if let collection = someOptionalCollection as? [SomeType]<br class="">{<br class=""> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for item in collection<br class=""> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<br class=""> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">It would be nice to be able to just attempt to iterate on an optional collection (or Sequence?) and not have to write the enclosing if block<br class=""><br class="">Thanks!<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Rick Mann<br class=""><a href="mailto:rmann@latencyzero.com" class="">rmann@latencyzero.com</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>