[swift-evolution] [Discussion]: Deprecate !-Unwrapping of Optionals

[Patrick Gili]

> On Feb 29, 2016, at 4:26 AM, Pyry Jahkola via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> To me, even after soon two years of Swift, it's still extremely hard to visually see where forced unwrapping happens. I do not think we should recommend unsafeUnwrap though because we'd then trade a guaranteed crash for undefined behaviour on nil, which is definitely the wrong choice at least 95% of time.
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> 

For starters, the interface builder generates code that uses forced unwrapping.

-Patrick
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