A More Swifty Way to Check an Optional for a Nil Value

[xwu (Xiaodi Wu)]

[Rejected] SE-0024 Optional Value Setter ??=

The review of SE-0024 "Optional Value Setter ??=“ ran from February 12...18, 2016. The proposal text is here:   swift-evolution/0024-optional-value-setter.md at master · apple/swift-evolution · GitHub The proposal is rejected. While the ‘??=‘ operator’s semantics are clear and fit with other compound assignment operators, the use cases are not strong enough to motivate inclusion of this operator. Radek’s lukewarm +0.5 review <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/6895&gt; cap…