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		vips7L 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s new in Swift 6.2 The ?.let syntax is terrible. I don’t see how anyone thinks it’s better than doing a normal if != null check.

renewedrebecca 9 months ago | [–]

Feels like a lot of people like making dealing with null as complicated as possible.

cosmic_cheese 9 months ago | [–]

The only time I ever use it is when the if != null check doesn’t work (aforementioned smart cast failure) and I don’t feel like creating a local var to fix it.

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