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Re:A Preview of C# 8 [video] by hungerstrike on Friday August 25, 2017 @02:24PM (#15100913)
"If let" leads to code that is hard to read IMO. I'd rather be able to easily tell the difference between conditional statements and assignments.

Another Swift feature that I think leads to very poor readability is trailing closures.

Re:A Preview of C# 8 [video] by bernadus_edwin on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:03AM (#15104154)
Without if let, you must add one line for declare local variable. And also must add exclamation mark