> On Apr 25, 2015, at 7:59 AM, William Squires <wsqui...@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Where I'm running into problems is this line of code:
>
> func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath:
> NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
> {
> var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(simpleTableIdentifier)
> as? UITableViewCell
> if (cell == nil)
> {
> cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Default, reuseIdentifier:
> simpleTableIdentifier)
> }
> cell!.textlabel.text = dwarves[indexPath.row] // Problem here
> return cell
> }
>
> Xcode is complaining that a "?" or "!" is needed after "textLabel", and
> before the ".text", but I don't really understand which one to use.
Using ‘?' here will give you the objC behavior of doing nothing if textLabel is
nil. Using ‘!’ would crash if it ended up as nil for some reason. When in
doubt use ‘?'
> Another line of code that confuses me is the first line:
>
> var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(simpleTableIdentifier)
> as? UITableViewCell
>
> yet they use an "!" and not a "?" in the cell!.textLabel.text... line.
> Shouldn't that be:
>
> cell?.textLabel.text to match up with the ? in the var cell... line?
The ‘!’ basically means: Hey compiler, I know you think this could be nil, but
trust me... I promise it won’t be. In this case, the line above it checks to
see if cell is nil and gives it a value, so we know it isn’t nil. I still
prefer to use ‘?’ or ‘if let’ in these cases though.
Thanks,
Jon
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