<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 28, 2017, at 6:38 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Sorry, I fail to see how either wording enhances the expression of why this operation is taking place. The entire explanation seems self-evident to me in `!`.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">It may not be though. How many times have you seen a force unwrap and immediately thought the programmer to just be lazy, or new to Swift?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The !! syntax proposal at least makes these forces clearly an intentional and thought out endeavor.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan</div></body></html>