Swift has an elegant solution to this called Optional Binding: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/TheBasics.html#ID330 https://docs.swift.org/swif

Swift has an elegant solution to this called Optional Binding: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/TheBasics.html#ID330 https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/TheBasics.ht... Go would benefit from something like this.