This was one of the first and most commonly suggested ideas, when the Swift Evolution mailing list first started. Chris Lattner sums it up <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151214/003546.html> in one of those threads:
> This is commonly requested - the problem is that while it does help reduce boilerplate, it runs counter to the goal of improving clarity. — Johan On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Vladimir.S via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote: > It is common to shadow optional value name with unwrapped value with same > name: > > if let someGoodValue = someGoodValue {...} > > What if we'll have a syntax to not repeat the variable name to achieve the > same target: > > if let someGoodValue! {...} > > What do you think? > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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