UITextField text property should be a non-optional String
| Originator: | PaulSolt | ||
| Number: | rdar://46580238 | Date Originated: | 12-9-18 |
| Status: | Open | Resolved: | |
| Product: | iOS + SDK | Product Version: | Xcode 10.1 |
| Classification: | Bug | Reproducible: | Always |
It doesn't make sense that the UITextField.text attribute is a `String?`.
let newRange = Range(range, in: textField.text!)
It should be non-optional, because even when you set it to `nil` it's reverted back to "".
Why?
It makes programming with UITextField's confusing to developers.
A developers first experience with Swift is that there's a ton of optionals ... and there isn't a good best practice to avoiding them ... especially when they're completely unnecessary.
Should I unwrap it? Can it ever be nil?
I'm not really sure, but I'm pretty sure it can't, so I force unwrap the value to work with it, which is annoying.
Discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42861115/why-is-uitextfield-text-an-optional
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