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

[Simon Pilkington]

I’m not sure it is a good idea to make the language syntax more verbose (and less convenient) in an attempt to suggest best practice. If nothing else force-unwrapping is useful in test code and making test code more verbose is definitely a negative.

As mentioned previously in this thread, I think it would be preferable to consider compiler options for warning/restricting its usage in production code - potentially even eventually moving to force-unwrapping being disabled for production code by default.

-Simon


> On 1 Mar 2016, at 9:30 PM, Andrey Tarantsov via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Strong -1.
>  
> My UI code has hundreds of these force-unwraps, mostly on resource access like UIImage(named: "something")!, to catch naming mistakes and the like. Making it a method will increase the visual noise significantly, and I can't even imagine using let's for this.
>  
> In general, I consider ! an assertion, and definitely NOT a code smell. There are many cases where generic code may legitimately return nil, but I as a developer know that it will never happen in my particular case.
>  
> A.
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