[swift-evolution] Remove Failable Initializers
Brent Royal-Gordon
brent at architechies.com
Wed Mar 9 14:23:02 CST 2016
> I would love to take a page out of Ruby's book which has ! for things that are dangerous and ? for boolean expression. Instead for Swift we could have ? for optional returns and ! for forced unwrapped.
>
> So we would have:
>
> Object()
> OptionalObject?()
>
> value
> optionalValue?
> forcedUnwrappedValue!
>
> function()
> optionalFunction?()
> forcedUnwrappedValue!()
>
> optionalProtocolMethod?()
> forcedProtocolMethod!()
You do understand that `?` at the end of a symbol already means something else, don't you? That's how optional chaining works.
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Brent Royal-Gordon
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