> Let me play devil’s advocate: why not just get rid of implicit unwrapping > entirely? > > Apple’s Objective-C APIs have had plenty of time to be audited by now.
Two reasons: 1. There are still a number of obscure Apple frameworks which have not been audited. 2. Not all imported code comes from Apple frameworks. In particular, Linux is a whole new world of unaudited—and frankly, probably never-going-to-be-audited in large part—code. Each time Swift moves to a new platform, it will need implicit unwrapping again for a few years while the major libraries get audited. Burning your ships is only a good motivational strategy if you don't need to go anywhere else. -- Brent Royal-Gordon Architechies _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
