Pulling values out of an enum with associated value fields.

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// Lets take an old example
enum Genre {
    case fiction
    case scifi
    case nonFiction
    case history
    case science
    case medical
    case other(name: String) //Associated value
}

// The defacto method for pulling out associated values invloves a switch statement

switch genre {
    case .fiction:
    //...
    case .other(let name): print(name)
}

// However there is actually another method to pull out just the associated value
if case let .other(name) == "poetry" {
    print(name)
}

//or 

if case .other(let name) == "poetry" {
    print(name
}