If Statement with Declaration

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On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 15:41:18 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 13:30:56 UTC, sontung wrote:
>> Thoughts on this sort of feature?
>
> To be frank, I don't think that helping the programmer reduce 
> the line count in their program by one line is worth further 
> complicating the language.

As Steve mentioned, it's three lines and apart and it makes a 
huge difference if you have to review a large codebase. After 
all, syntactic sugar is one of the reasons why Python is so 
popular.