> On Jul 5, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +1, but I'm not a big fan of the proposed Optional -> NSNull bridging which 
> can cause various hard-to-debug issues with errors "NSNull doesn't respond to 
> a selector -foo".

I'm not proposing that particular mapping as part of this proposal, only as a 
potential future direction. However, these issues should be avoided by dynamic 
casting type checks. An untyped NSArray that contains NSNulls would come into 
Swift as an [Any], and would fail to dynamically cast to [Foo]. You'd have to 
cast it to [Foo?], which would force you to handle the NSNulls as Swift nils.

-Joe

> 
> Most APIs that take "id" as an argument usually specify several types that 
> the API accepts (e.g. arrays and dictionaries), but passing in NSNull is not 
> acceptable. I believe this change would create confusion rather than 
> eliminate it as is the goal of this proposal.
> 
>> On Jul 5, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Swift community,
>> 
>> The review of "SE-0116: Import Objective-C id as Swift Any type" begins now 
>> and runs through July 11. The proposal is available here:
>> 
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>> 
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