There’s something I don’t understand about the proposal. How can the following 
code still be valid if the proposal is accepted:

let x: Int! = 5
let y: Int? = 7
print(x < y) // true

Isn’t there going to be a problem coercing y?

David.

> On 12 Jul 2016, at 08:22, Mark Lacey via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 9:54 PM, Chris Lattner <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 9:35 PM, Mark Lacey <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 9:12 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:14 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution 
>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> You'd have to unwrap it, or use the ??/==/!= operators: 
>>>>> https://gist.github.com/jtbandes/9d88cc83ceceb6c62f38 
>>>>> <https://gist.github.com/jtbandes/9d88cc83ceceb6c62f38>
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd be okay with </<=/>/>= returning Bool?, as I suggested in an older 
>>>>> email (which somehow didn't make it to gmane's archive, but it's quoted 
>>>>> in some other messages 
>>>>> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/10095>). I think 
>>>>> it would be more convenient in some cases than unwrapping the individual 
>>>>> values before comparing them.
>>>> 
>>>> I’d be strongly opposed to those operator returning “Bool?”.  Doing so 
>>>> would prevent conforming to Comparable and would be extremely surprising.
>>>> 
>>>> -Chris
>>> 
>>> I just pushed the current draft of the proposal: 
>>> https://github.com/rudkx/swift-evolution/blob/eliminate-value-to-optional-coercion/proposals/0000-disallow-value-to-optional-coercion-in-operator-arguments.md
>>>  
>>> <https://github.com/rudkx/swift-evolution/blob/eliminate-value-to-optional-coercion/proposals/0000-disallow-value-to-optional-coercion-in-operator-arguments.md>
>>> 
>>> I haven’t addressed removal of the ordered comparison operators. I suspect 
>>> this should be a separate proposal, but I can roll that into this one if 
>>> it’s desired.
>>> 
>>> I’ll update the proposal as the discussion continues until it’s selected 
>>> for review.
>> 
>> I think it makes sense to keep removal of the non-equality comparisons a 
>> separate proposal.
>> 
>> Here are some nit-picky comments:
>> 
>> I’d suggest adding quotes:
>> 
>> … by making the notion of “having" or "not having" a value explicit. 
>> 
>> Missing a let/var before the first x in:
>> 
>> func returnsOptional() -> Int? {
>>   x: Int = ...
>>   return x
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> I would move “Proposed Solution” before “Motivation” and just call it 
>> “Proposal”.  Otherwise the motivation section doesn’t make sense to read in 
>> order.
>> 
>> 
>> I’d add to this:
>> "Both of these examples represent cases where the silent behavior could 
>> potentially hide bugs or confuse readers of the code.”  
>> 
>> … “, it would be better to reject the code as a type error."
>> 
>> 
>> If this is relating to implementation details of the standard library, then 
>> it should be omitted from the proposal.  The following paragraph also makes 
>> sense to revise if you drop this:
>> "Additionally the standard library has approximately a half a dozen 
>> locations where optionals are compared to non-optional values which will 
>> need to be updated to explicitly cast one operand to an optional.”
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the great feedback. I have most of it addressed, but I’m not sure 
> what you’re referring to with “If this is relating to implementation details 
> of the standard library…”? Do you mean the functions I called out that need 
> to be added?
> 
> I can remove that, but I thought it was worth calling out despite the fact 
> that they are just overloads. If it’s not necessary to do so, I’ll delete 
> that section (although there aren’t many details left in the “Detailed 
> design” at that point).
> 
> Mark
> 
>> 
>> In this paragraph, I’d recommend changing the wording to be specific and 
>> opinionated (saying that “Optional” is the right answer).  If you want to 
>> raise specific alternatives for consideration, please add it to 
>> “alternatives considered” at the end:
>> "This conversion can currently be accomplished by using Optional() 
>> (preferable) or alternately .some(). We could also consider adding a new 
>> top-level function for this purpose, but unless it provides additional 
>> clarity, it seems like Optional() is reasonable and quite prominent."
>> 
>> Keeping the body of the proposal opinionated makes the review periods more 
>> useful because people know what is specifically being proposed.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "In a survey of six projects” -> Can you explicitly share the name of any of 
>> the projects?
>> 
>> Otherwise, LGTM.  When you’re happy with it, please submit a PR for 
>> swift-evolution repo, I’ll review managerize it,
>> 
>> -Chris
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