unwrapping multiple optionals in if statement

Question

I want to unwrap two optionals in one if statement, but the compiler complaints about an expected expression after operator at the password constant. What could be the reaso

Answer 1

Great news. Unwrapping multiple optionals in a single line is now supported in Swift 1.2 (XCode 6.3 beta, released 2/9/15).

No more tuple/switch pattern matching needed. It's actually very close to your original suggested syntax (thanks for listening, Apple!)

if let email = emailField?.text, password = passwordField?.text {

}

Another nice thing is you can also add where for a "guarding condition":

var email: String? = "baz@bar.com"
var name: String? = "foo"

if let n = name, e = email where contains(e, "@") {
  println("name and email exist, email has @")
}

Reference: XCode 6.3 Beta Release Notes

Answer 2

Based on @Joel's answer, I've created a helper method.

func unwrap<T, U>(a:T?, b:U?, handler:((T, U) -> ())?) -> Bool {
    switch (a, b) {
    case let (.Some(a), .Some(b)):
        if handler != nil {
            handler!(a, b)
        }
        return true
    default:
        return false
    }
}

// Usage

unwrap(a, b) {
    println("\($0), \($1)")
}