> On Jun 17, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The required _ = try? on what used to be a BOOL result in ObjC is incredibly >> annoying, mostly with NSXML* classes on OS X where you really don't care >> about the error 99% of the time, but care just about the result >> (nodesForXPath, etc). > > Are you in control of the XPath strings? If so, you should probably be using > `try!`, because any mistake in your queries would be a programmer error.
I might be, but I've come across XMLs where the XPaths were correct (confirmed), yet the nodes(forXPath:) failed with an error. Mostly when multiple namespaces were present. > I'm also not sure why you would call `nodes(forXPath:)` in void context at > all—it doesn't have any useful side effects. Sorry, this is my fault, kind of got side-tracked since I've recently dealt quite a lot with XML and it was freshly in my mind. > > -- > Brent Royal-Gordon > Architechies > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
