If destructuring

[kiljacken]

Liam suggested also allowing the use of if when destructuring a union enum. It would look something like the following:

x := thisReturnsAnOption();
if Some(val) := x {
    // Do stuff with val
}

I'm not sure if I find this neccesary as we have match statement, but what does everybody think?

If we were to implement this the by far easiest way is to transform it into the equivalent match structure, as to not special case things further. That would mean that we turn the previous if into:

match x {
    Some(val) => {
        // Do stuff with val
    }
    _ => {},
}

[MovingtoMars]

How would that work with else if

[kiljacken]

Ugh, didn't think about that.

[kiljacken]

I guess it wouldn't be too bad special casing wise, so no biggie

[felixangell]

Looks good to me 👍

[MovingtoMars]

Rust and Swift both do this, I believe.