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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:30:20 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Nick Lockwood

   @nicklockwood
   Yeah, I have deeply mixed feelings about this particular language decision. Either choice is so obviously wrong.

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     Nick Lockwood (nicklockwood@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:30:21 JST Nick Lockwood

     It has been 0️⃣ days since I got bitten by a bug caused by forgetting to set an optional var in a Swift struct due to the synthesized init defaulting it to nil.

     Reminder: you can avoid this by declaring it as:

     struct Foo {
     var bar: Optional<Baz>
     }

     Instead of:

     struct Foo {
     var bar: Baz?
     }