[swift-evolution] Proposal: Replace ?? by an (optional) argument to ?

Erica Sadun erica at ericasadun.com
Mon Jan 25 20:28:50 CST 2016


Not loving this.  I'm quite happy with ??-coalescing and don't see
a compelling reason it needs to be "cleaner". I find your suggested
enhancement less readable. Looks like an optional chaining across 
a function.

-- E

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Examples:
> 
> * instead of x ?? false, you would have x?(false)
> * instead of x?.isEmpty ?? false, you would have x?(false).isEmpty
> 
> I think this change would result in cleaner looking code.
> 
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