[swift-evolution] Shorthand unwrap proposal

[Tim Vermeulen]

But ! still suggests force unwrapping, while ? suggests safe unwrapping. Why not use a question mark?

> It was in the previous proposal and suggested that you are not trying to shadow the previous variable, but trying to unwrap it - and it acts as unwrapped from there on.
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> > On Jun 23, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Tim Vermeulen<tvermeulen at me.com>wrote:
> > 
> > Why with the exclamation mark? It suggests you’re force unwrapping something.
> > 
> > > > On Jun 23, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Tim Vermeulen via swift-evolution<swift-evolution at swift.org>wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I would love to be able to do something like
> > > > 
> > > > doSomething(with: myOptional?)
> > > This actually looks good to me, though if I were a newcomer to the language, it would be really cryptic.
> > > 
> > > In case the function returned any value, it could become an optional, just like with try?...
> > > 
> > > I still, however, prefer the original proposal of if let myOptional! { doSomething(myOptional) }...
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > which would be equivalent to
> > > > 
> > > > if let myValue = myOptional {
> > > > doSomething(with: myValue)
> > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > But it’s been discussed here before, and I don’t think people were very enthusiastic about it.
> > > > 
> > > > > I was wondering if people would be open to adding an unwrap method to the Optional type,I already have a method like this which shortens code for me.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So this:
> > > > > 
> > > > > let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"
> > > > > 
> > > > > if let string = myReallyLongOptionalName {
> > > > > doSomethingWith(string)
> > > > > }
> > > > > 
> > > > > Could become"
> > > > > 
> > > > > let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"
> > > > > 
> > > > > myReallyLongOptionalName.unwrap {
> > > > > doSomethingWith($0)
> > > > > }
> > > > > 
> > > > > The block would only be fired if myReallyLongOptionalName has a value.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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