Combining if let and where in Swift

What I like about Swift is that it feels like a natural progression when learning more of the language’s features. Case in point: I’ve known about the where keyword for a while, and have used it plenty of times before, but just found this little ditty:

if let someBool = someThing?.someBool where someBool {
  // do stuff if someBool is true
}

That will only execute the body of the statement if someThing is not nil and someBool is true. Before, I had thought that would’ve been two separate statements, and extra indenting. Kinda cool.

Written by Scott Williams who lives and works in sunny Phoenix, AZ. Twitter is also a place.