mandatory "?" suffix for identifiers associated with optional types

Tyler_Mandry · 2015-12-06T21:56:03.000Z

I agree with Adrian here – the problem IMO is the fact that you can do `x <
5` *at all* if x is optional.

Allowing programmers to do `x? < 5` still doesn't make clear what the
actual result of the operation will be if x is nil. In fact, I would
actually *expect* the result of the operation to be a Bool?, not a Bool
which is always false if x is nil.

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Tyler Mandry

thorsten · 2015-12-06T22:08:56.000Z

+1. I also think that < should not be defined for Optional.

-Thorsten

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Am 06.12.2015 um 22:56 schrieb Tyler Mandry via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org>:

I agree with Adrian here – the problem IMO is the fact that you can do `x < 5` at all if x is optional.