[swift-users] Exclamation mark's in swift parameter listings?

[Rien]

I stand corrected.

I do/did think that there is a difference in the way it handles pointers optionals and other optionals, but I now realise that even that could not be the case.
So please ignore the last line in my previous post.

The rest still stand ;-)

Regards,
Rien

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> On 10 Jan 2017, at 18:14, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 9, 2017, at 11:19 PM, Rien via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It means that a call to that function with an optional will unwrap the optional before it is used.
>> 
>> That is quite neat when dealing with C-API’s because often you will receive a pointer from a C-function which is optional to account for the fact that it can be NULL (= nil).
>> By using a forced unwrapped input parameter you are saved the trouble of unwrapping all these pointers when using them as input for other C-APIs.
>> 
>> In short, it makes it easier to interface with C-API’s.
>> 
>> Note that there is some under-the-hood magic going on because a C-pointer is an unboxed value, while a ‘normal’ optional is a boxed value.
> 
> Optionals are never boxed.
> 
> -Joe