* [Use pattern-matching in `if let` instead of optional-unwrapping](https://forums.swift.org/t/obsoleting-if-let/1301/4): We actually tried this and got a lot of negative feedback, for several reasons: (1) Most developers don't think about things in "pattern matching" terms, they think about "destructuring". (2) The vastly most common use case for `if let` is actually for optional matching, and this change made the common case more awkward. (3) This change increases the learning curve of Swift, changing pattern matching from being a concept that can be learned late to something that must be confronted early. (4) The current design of `if case` unifies "pattern matching" around the `case` keyword. (5) If a developer unfamiliar with `if case` runs into one in some code, they can successfully search for it in a search engine or Stack Overflow.
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