[swift-evolution] modifying Array<Element> to return Element! when subscripted

[Charlie Monroe]

There is currently an ongoing discussion about this here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/21420


> On Jun 23, 2016, at 6:07 PM, Pranjal Satija via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Would modifying array subscripts to return implicitly unwrapped optionals be a bad idea? This way, if an array is indexed out of bounds, the returned value will be nil, instead of a fatal error. This would allow developers to check for nil before fatal errors are created.
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