[swift-users] Dictionary with optional values

[Artyom Goncharov]

Yes, of course I can use API method but this kind of behaviour for subscript operator seems inconsistent(or even magical) to me because it is possible to initialise a dictionary with nil without casting it. Though nil is a special case it is still a value in the set of all values of a T? type, am I wrong?

> On 18 May 2016, at 18:38, Ray Fix via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 18, 2016, at 3:56 AM, Artyom Goncharov via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> var noOptDict = ["one": 1, "two": 2, "three": 3 ]
>> noOptDict["one"] = nil
> 
> Wow, interesting.  To me this was surprising behavior too.
> 
> The comment for Dictionary subscript  says:
> 
>   /// Access the value associated with the given key.
>   ///
>   /// Reading a key that is not present in `self` yields `nil`.
>   /// Writing `nil` as the value for a given key erases that key from
>   /// `self`.
> 
> Which is exactly what it is doing.  As the Zhaoxin said, you can use updateValue (and removeValueForKey) to get better results when dealing with optional dictionary values.
> 
> Ray
> 
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