[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Remove force unwrapping in function signature.

[Chris Lattner]

> On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jul 19, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Saagar Jha <saagarjha28 at gmail.com <mailto:saagarjha28 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I have updated the proposal here <https://gist.github.com/saagarjha/f33fecd4576f40133b6469da942ef453>. Since this is a potentially a source breaking change, I’d like this to be considered for Swift 3; unless anyone has any issues with it, I’m going to push this to swift-evolution.
> 
> Some comments:
> - The syntax proposed would be *completely* unlike anything in Swift, and is semantically changing things unrelated to the type.
> - This proposal doesn’t work, and overly punishes IUOs.
> 
> I recommend that we do not discuss this proposal, as it would not be a good use of community time.  Beyond the unworkability of this specific proposal, in my personal opinion, there is nothing wrong with the T! syntax.  Making it significantly more verbose would be a very *bad* thing for the intended use cases.

Hi Saagar,

I’m sorry for the response above, I apparently misunderstood your early example to read it as putting the force unwrapping concept into the “forceUnwrapping” parameter label.

I now see that your idea is to remove force unwrapping entirely for parameters.  I am very concerned about this and think it would not be accepted into Swift.  It makes the language less consistent (why can you do it on a property, but not a parameter) and eliminates important use cases for T!: overriding an non-nullability audited method.

-Chris

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