Optionals and nil in Switch statement

[lucasjordan]

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process
here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value,
and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression
pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize
that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello,
playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is
clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

NilInSwitchStatements.playground.zip (6.94 KB)

[knatt (Kevin Nattinger)]

Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

···

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[Nevin]

Does `case "text"?` work?

···

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution@swift.org');>> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process
here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value,
and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error,
"Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'.
I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where
s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is
clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[knatt (Kevin Nattinger)]

No

  7> switch str {
  8. case "foo": print("case foo")
  9. case .none: print("(nil)")
10. }
error: repl.swift:8:6: error: value of optional type 'String?' not unwrapped; did you mean to use '!' or '?'?
case "foo": print("case foo")
     ^
          !
Odd error, but at least it suggests it’s an issue with optionaity.

···

On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com> wrote:

Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[lucasjordan]

This is sort of weird right? because comparing nil to a non nil string is a
reasonable thing to do:

var nilString:String? = nil

if nilString == "this always fails" {}

is totally reasonable.

···

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Nattinger <swift@nattinger.net> wrote:

No

  7> switch str {
  8. case "foo": print("case foo")
  9. case .none: print("(nil)")
10. }
error: repl.swift:8:6: error: value of optional type 'String?' not
unwrapped; did you mean to use '!' or '?'?
case "foo": print("case foo")
     ^
          !
Odd error, but at least it suggests it’s an issue with optionaity.

On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky < > nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com> wrote:

Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process
here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value,
and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error,
"Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'.
I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement
(case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is
clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[Nevin]

I just got home and tested. The answer is yes, `case "text"?` does work.

let optStr : String? = "text"
switch optStr {
case nil : print("Nil")
case "text"? : print("Success")
default : print("Default")
}
// Prints `Success`

Nevin

···

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky < nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com> wrote:

Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution < >> swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process
here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value,
and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error,
"Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'.
I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s
where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is
clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[knatt (Kevin Nattinger)]

I’ve always thought it’s a bit odd, but that’s the way it is. FWIW, if you define `T? ~= T?` (switch uses `~=` under the hood), you can use that syntax:

public func ~=<T : Equatable>(a: T?, b: T?) -> Bool {
  return a == b
}

switch str {
case "foo": print("foo")
case "bar": print("bar")
case nil: print("nil")
default: print("other")
}

For better or worse, this prevents you from using the `.some(x)` / `.none` version.

You could propose adding this to the standard library to the swift-evolution list, see how they react.

···

On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Lucas Jordan <lucasjordan@gmail.com> wrote:

This is sort of weird right? because comparing nil to a non nil string is a reasonable thing to do:

var nilString:String? = nil

if nilString == "this always fails" {}

is totally reasonable.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Nattinger <swift@nattinger.net> wrote:
No

  7> switch str {
  8. case "foo": print("case foo")
  9. case .none: print("(nil)")
10. }
error: repl.swift:8:6: error: value of optional type 'String?' not unwrapped; did you mean to use '!' or '?'?
case "foo": print("case foo")
     ^
          !
Odd error, but at least it suggests it’s an issue with optionaity.

On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com> wrote:

Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[knatt (Kevin Nattinger)]

Slight amendment for `let` case, which does evidently still require the explicit `.some`

switch str {
case "foo": print("foo")
case .some(let string): print(string) // `case let .some(string)` also works
case nil: print("nil")
}

···

On Jun 28, 2016, at 11:10 AM, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I’ve always thought it’s a bit odd, but that’s the way it is. FWIW, if you define `T? ~= T?` (switch uses `~=` under the hood), you can use that syntax:

public func ~=<T : Equatable>(a: T?, b: T?) -> Bool {
  return a == b
}

switch str {
case "foo": print("foo")
case "bar": print("bar")
case nil: print("nil")
default: print("other")
}

For better or worse, this prevents you from using the `.some(x)` / `.none` version.

You could propose adding this to the standard library to the swift-evolution list, see how they react.

On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Lucas Jordan <lucasjordan@gmail.com> wrote:

This is sort of weird right? because comparing nil to a non nil string is a reasonable thing to do:

var nilString:String? = nil

if nilString == "this always fails" {}

is totally reasonable.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Nattinger <swift@nattinger.net> wrote:
No

  7> switch str {
  8. case "foo": print("case foo")
  9. case .none: print("(nil)")
10. }
error: repl.swift:8:6: error: value of optional type 'String?' not unwrapped; did you mean to use '!' or '?'?
case "foo": print("case foo")
     ^
          !
Odd error, but at least it suggests it’s an issue with optionaity.

On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com> wrote:

Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[Charlie_Monroe1 (Charlie Monroe)]

I nevertheless think that this is a bug and should be addressed. There is no reason where

if stringOptional == stringNonOptional { ... }

works, but pretty much the same construct doesn't work in the switch-case. It should be perhaps solved via a bugreport at http://bugs.swift.org <Issues · apple/swift · GitHub; and via evolution, though...

···

On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:31 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I just got home and tested. The answer is yes, `case "text"?` does work.

let optStr : String? = "text"
switch optStr {
case nil : print("Nil")
case "text"? : print("Success")
default : print("Default")
}
// Prints `Success`

Nevin

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com <mailto:nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com>> wrote:
Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org <>> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[hartbit (David Hart)]

I don't see it as a bug. The if statement calls an equality function which promotes the lhs to an Optional (or that accepts a non optional as lhs - can't remember) but the switch statement does pattern matching. Does the the compiler warn you when pattern matching an optional with a non-optional case?

···

On 29 Jun 2016, at 07:16, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I nevertheless think that this is a bug and should be addressed. There is no reason where

if stringOptional == stringNonOptional { ... }

works, but pretty much the same construct doesn't work in the switch-case. It should be perhaps solved via a bugreport at http://bugs.swift.org and via evolution, though...

On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:31 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I just got home and tested. The answer is yes, `case "text"?` does work.

let optStr : String? = "text"
switch optStr {
case nil : print("Nil")
case "text"? : print("Success")
default : print("Default")
}
// Prints `Success`

Nevin

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[Charlie_Monroe1 (Charlie Monroe)]

Yes, you get a warning. But I don't see why it should - when you're matching against an optional, it's evident that you mean .some("Hello")... This should be automatically inferred.

I find this a confusing part of the switch statement where

let obj: Any? = "Hello"

switch obj {
case let str as String:
    print("Hey, found String!")
default:
    print("No find.")
}

will print "Hey found String", but it won't allow you to match against a string literal. This is one of the first things that I found confusing when I first learned Swift.

···

On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:49 AM, David Hart <david@hartbit.com> wrote:

I don't see it as a bug. The if statement calls an equality function which promotes the lhs to an Optional (or that accepts a non optional as lhs - can't remember) but the switch statement does pattern matching. Does the the compiler warn you when pattern matching an optional with a non-optional case?

On 29 Jun 2016, at 07:16, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:

I nevertheless think that this is a bug and should be addressed. There is no reason where

if stringOptional == stringNonOptional { ... }

works, but pretty much the same construct doesn't work in the switch-case. It should be perhaps solved via a bugreport at http://bugs.swift.org <Issues · apple/swift · GitHub; and via evolution, though...

On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:31 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:

I just got home and tested. The answer is yes, `case "text"?` does work.

let optStr : String? = "text"
switch optStr {
case nil : print("Nil")
case "text"? : print("Success")
default : print("Default")
}
// Prints `Success`

Nevin

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com <mailto:nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com>> wrote:
Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org <>> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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[hartbit (David Hart)]

Perhaps it should provide a Fix-It, but I don't see it as an an issue, more as an opportunity to understand the pattern matching behind it :)

···

On 29 Jun 2016, at 08:59, Charlie Monroe <charlie@charliemonroe.net> wrote:

Yes, you get a warning. But I don't see why it should - when you're matching against an optional, it's evident that you mean .some("Hello")... This should be automatically inferred.

I find this a confusing part of the switch statement where

let obj: Any? = "Hello"

switch obj {
case let str as String:
    print("Hey, found String!")
default:
    print("No find.")
}

will print "Hey found String", but it won't allow you to match against a string literal. This is one of the first things that I found confusing when I first learned Swift.

On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:49 AM, David Hart <david@hartbit.com> wrote:

I don't see it as a bug. The if statement calls an equality function which promotes the lhs to an Optional (or that accepts a non optional as lhs - can't remember) but the switch statement does pattern matching. Does the the compiler warn you when pattern matching an optional with a non-optional case?

On 29 Jun 2016, at 07:16, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I nevertheless think that this is a bug and should be addressed. There is no reason where

if stringOptional == stringNonOptional { ... }

works, but pretty much the same construct doesn't work in the switch-case. It should be perhaps solved via a bugreport at http://bugs.swift.org and via evolution, though...

On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:31 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

I just got home and tested. The answer is yes, `case "text"?` does work.

let optStr : String? = "text"
switch optStr {
case nil : print("Nil")
case "text"? : print("Success")
default : print("Default")
}
// Prints `Success`

Nevin

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Does `case "text"?` work?

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Kevin Nattinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Case .none:
Case .some("string"):

On Jun 28, 2016, at 06:40, Lucas Jordan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Forgive me if this was/is discussed already, I am new to the process here....

(code is attached as a playground too)

Sometimes when I am working with a String? nil can be a reasonable value, and what I want to do is something like the following:

import UIKit

var str:String? = "Hello, playground"

switch str{

case nil:

    print("Nil!")

case "Hello, playground": //it would be super nice if this worked.

    print("Match")

default:

    print("Some other non nil value?")

}

But it does not work, the orange text is a compile time error, "Expression pattern of type 'String' cannot match value of type 'String?'. I realize that this can be replaced with a let statement (case let s where s == "Hello, playground":), but that is verbose.

Seems like the compiler could be OK with the orange text, since it is clearly not nil.

Thoughts?

-Lucas

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