Conditional Binding: if let error – Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type

I am trying to delete a row from my Data Source and the following line of code:

if let tv = tableView {

causes the following error:

Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type, not UITableView

Here is the full code:

// Override to support editing the table view.
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, commitEditingStyle editingStyle:UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
    if editingStyle == .Delete {

        // Delete the row from the data source

    if let tv = tableView {

            myData.removeAtIndex(indexPath.row)

            tv.deleteRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: .Fade)

How should I correct the following?

 if let tv = tableView {

if let/if var optional binding only works when the result of the right side of the expression is an optional. If the result of the right side is not an optional, you can not use this optional binding. The point of this optional binding is to check for nil and only use the variable if it's non-nil.

In your case, the tableView parameter is declared as the non-optional type UITableView. It is guaranteed to never be nil. So optional binding here is unnecessary.

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, commitEditingStyle editingStyle:UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
    if editingStyle == .Delete {
        // Delete the row from the data source
        myData.removeAtIndex(indexPath.row)
        tableView.deleteRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: .Fade)

All we have to do is get rid of the if let and change any occurrences of tv within it to just tableView.

for my specific problem I had to replace

if let count = 1
    {
        // do something ...
    }

With

let count = 1
if(count > 0)
    {
        // do something ...
    }

In a case where you are using a custom cell type, say ArticleCell, you might get an error that says :

    Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type, not 'ArticleCell'

You will get this error if your line of code looks something like this:

    if let cell = tableView.dequeReusableCell(withIdentifier: "ArticleCell",for indexPath: indexPath) as! ArticleCell 

You can fix this error by doing the following :

    if let cell = tableView.dequeReusableCell(withIdentifier: "ArticleCell",for indexPath: indexPath) as ArticleCell?

If you check the above, you will see that the latter is using optional casting for a cell of type ArticleCell.

Same applies for guard statements. The same error message lead me to this post and answer (thanks @nhgrif).

The code: Print the last name of the person only if the middle name is less than four characters.

func greetByMiddleName(name: (first: String, middle: String?, last: String?)) {
    guard let Name = name.last where name.middle?.characters.count < 4 else {
        print("Hi there)")
        return
    }
    print("Hey \(Name)!")
}

Until I declared last as an optional parameter I was seeing the same error.

condition binding must have optinal type which mean that you can only bind optional values in if let statement

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

    if editingStyle == .delete {

        // Delete the row from the data source

        if let tv = tableView as UITableView? {


        }
    }
}

This will work fine but make sure when you use if let it must have optinal type "?"