But ! still suggests force unwrapping, while ? suggests safe unwrapping. Why
not use a question mark?
> It was in the previous proposal and suggested that you are not trying to
> shadow the previous variable, but trying to unwrap it - and it acts as
> unwrapped from there on.
>
>
> > On Jun 23, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Tim Vermeulen<tvermeu...@me.com>wrote:
> >
> > Why with the exclamation mark? It suggests you’re force unwrapping
> > something.
> >
> > > > On Jun 23, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Tim Vermeulen via
> > > > swift-evolution<swift-evolution@swift.org>wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I would love to be able to do something like
> > > >
> > > > doSomething(with: myOptional?)
> > > This actually looks good to me, though if I were a newcomer to the
> > > language, it would be really cryptic.
> > >
> > > In case the function returned any value, it could become an optional,
> > > just like with try?...
> > >
> > > I still, however, prefer the original proposal of if let myOptional! {
> > > doSomething(myOptional) }...
> > >
> > > >
> > > > which would be equivalent to
> > > >
> > > > if let myValue = myOptional {
> > > > doSomething(with: myValue)
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > But it’s been discussed here before, and I don’t think people were very
> > > > enthusiastic about it.
> > > >
> > > > > I was wondering if people would be open to adding an unwrap method to
> > > > > the Optional type,I already have a method like this which shortens
> > > > > code for me.
> > > > >
> > > > > So this:
> > > > >
> > > > > let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"
> > > > >
> > > > > if let string = myReallyLongOptionalName {
> > > > > doSomethingWith(string)
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > Could become"
> > > > >
> > > > > let myReallyLongOptionalName: String? = "Hey"
> > > > >
> > > > > myReallyLongOptionalName.unwrap {
> > > > > doSomethingWith($0)
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > The block would only be fired if myReallyLongOptionalName has a value.
> > > > >
> > > > >
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