Seems like this discussion about an astonishingly inconsequential piece of syntactic sugar was the catalyst: https://forums.swift.org/t/if-let-shorthand/54230

Seems like this discussion about an astonishingly inconsequential piece of syntactic sugar was the catalyst: https://forums.swift.org/t/if-let-shorthand/54230 https://forums.swift.org/t/if-let-shorthand/54230