# SE-0308: \`#if\` for postfix member expressions

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0308-if-for-postfix-member-expressions/47163>\
**Category:** Proposal Reviews\
**Created:** [April 5, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0308-if-for-postfix-member-expressions/47163 "2021-04-05T15:43:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![STREGAsGate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/stregasgate/32/14545_2.png) [@STREGAsGate](https://forums.swift.org/u/STREGAsGate)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0308-if-for-postfix-member-expressions/47163/2 "2021-04-06T01:19:20Z")

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+1

I don't love this syntactically for Swift, but I continuously attempt to do exactly this on a regular basis and expect it to work.  
It's much more difficult to read code like this, but I feel the issue is actually because of incomplete editor support for showing the active path through the code as many IDEs do for other languages, and not because of a syntactical issue.

I would very much appreciate this functionality.

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