[swift-corelibs-dev] NSAttributedString attributesAtIndex return an optional.

[James Lee]

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> Personally, if I indexed past the end of an attributed string, I would expect a precondition to fail and (since Swift can't catch assertion failures) my app to crash. (And from what I can tell, the Apple Foundation versions of these APIs do not return an optional.)
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> Brent Royal-Gordon
> Architechies
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It is worth noting that the current OSX documentation does raise an NSRangeException in the case discussed above. With the throw capabilities in Swift 2 this makes sense.

As you have said, it seems a lot of Foundation API's do not return Optionals. I feel this a hangover from ObjC where an empty object (in this case an NSDictionary) would be returned. To me this is what Optionals are there to replace.