;) yes. I know I can write let x = y! but IMHO THAT is too brief again. 
I like the fact that guard makes you look what you do… it is a little bit like 
assert(x != nil)

guard! let x = y

it reads awesome and everybody can more easily see it is a potentially fatal & 
important call

> On May 3, 2016, at 1:38 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_r...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> We have that; it’s just ‘!’. :-)
> 
> Jordan
> 
>> On May 2, 2016, at 12:09, Dominik Pich via swift-evolution 
>> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> often the guard statement is used to only unwrap optionals. multiple guards 
>> will cause a lot of ‘overhead’.
>> also often if it doesn’t work. there is no easy way we can gracefully 
>> recover ;)
>> 
>> so how about we do the same as with try/catch where you can use try! and 
>> have a guard!
>> 
>> the guard! could just throw an exception …
>> 
>> regards
>> Dominik
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