SE-0345: `if let` shorthand for shadowing an existing optional variable

To date:

  • 39 reviews are wholly positive. This category includes the "not important, but sure, why not" votes.

  • 13 people agree that there is a problem to be solved but would like to use or investigate a different spelling. This number includes the "-1 on this specific proposal" votes.

  • 5 people were net positive but expressed either reservations or lukewarmness.

  • 1 person was mildly negative.

  • 14 people were negative.

  • 5 people were uncategorizable; they wrote ambiguous text or expressed positions too nuanced for simple counting.

I tried to unique by poster, but this is a hand count and I'm sure that if you did your own, you would come up with similar-but-different numbers.

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