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		ctdonath on Sept 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13 "Nothing to do but bail" is very rare, orders of magnitude below the frequency of misused force-unwrap.

donarb on Sept 26, 2019 [–]

I save force unwraps for things that will be caught at develop/testing time, like app images that are supposed to be in the binary or controls that are supposed to be wired up in Interface Builder. Otherwise, for me, using a force unwrap is a code smell.

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