core team feedback
Hi John,
Thanks for the thread wrap up. The core team discussed this thread and, as you surmise, deprecating the force unwrap postfix operator is out of the question, though not just for source stability reasons. We believe force-unwrap and force-try are valuable tools and would not entertain a proposal to deprecate or remove them. We think adding some wording to this effect to the Commonly Proposed document probably makes sense.
Participants are welcome to continue to discuss the stylistic merits of avoiding force unwraps, but that should be done in the Using Swift section of the forum rather than the Evolution section.
Cheers,
Ben