<div dir="ltr"><div>On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Amir Michail <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.michail@me.com" target="_blank">a.michail@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
</span>I really don’t like having to put the ! suffix in boolean contexts:<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>To be explicit:</div><div><br></div><div> let a: Bool! = false</div><div><br></div><div> if a == false { } // Works as expected<br></div><div><br></div><div> if !a { } // Works as expected</div><div><br></div><div> if a { } // "error: optional type 'Bool!' cannot be used as a boolean; test for '!= nil' instead"</div></div><div><br></div><div>Xcode "fixes" the last line like this:</div><div><br></div><div> if (a != nil) { }<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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"if displayFlag! { ... }" instead of "if displayFlag { … }" etc.<br>
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If you also want a way to compare with nil, then maybe have this for implicitly unwrapped optionals:<br>
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if displayFlag? == nil { … }<br>
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