The Future Of [weak self] Rebinding

[acecilia (Andrés Cecilia Luque)]

As @DevAndArtist said, there are multiple proposal being discussed here, I think three at the moment:

• Allow rebinding self (this thread): which there is already a merged PR here, from @dduan (does that mean that the discussion is finished because the proposal has been accepted and merged?)
• Unwrapping an optional without the need to repeat the name (unwrap keyword: if unwrap mySomeVariable {…}): there is no updated thread at the moment discussing this, as far as I know. Also, from the Swift evolution repo (here), this proposal seems to be among the "commonly proposed and rejected" ones:

Syntactic sugar for if let self-assignment: An alternative syntax (such as if let foo? { ... } or if let foo=? { ... }) to serve as a shorthand for if let foo = foo { ... } is often proposed and rejected because it is favoring terseness over clarity by introducing new magic syntactic sugar.

• The usage of [guard self] in closures returning Void, as syntactic sugar for substituting the commonly used piece of code [weak self] in guard let strongSelf = self else { return }. That has already an active discussion thread here.