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Feature: `if let` expression
Description
Swift offers the if let statement, which allows the definition of an conditional statement that is executed if an optional parameter is not null. In addition it unwraps the optional value to its interior value and assigns it to a variable. With the exception of planned switch expressions Radiance doesn't have an alternative way to unwrap an Optional monad into its value, which would make this a valuable convenience to the language.
The swift syntax is:
if let VAR_NAME = EXPRESSION { STATEMENTS* }
It only works with the inbuilt Optional enum. Whereas the Rust syntax is:
if let ENUM_VARIANT ( VAR_NAME ) = EXPRESSION { STATEMENTS* }
Which allows for usage with any enum variant, with the slight downside of additional complexity.
