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cosmic_cheese • today at 2:32 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The absence of guard in Kotlin is one of those things that regularly trips me up when bouncing between it and Swift. Rather than Swift losing guard I’d prefer if Kotlin gained it.

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iamcalledrob • today at 3:37 PM

I think the ?: operator ends up being a decent alternative, e.g.

  // Swift
  guard let foo = maybeFoo else {
    print("missing foo")
    return false
  }

  // Kotlin
  val foo = maybeFoo ?: run {
    print("missing foo")
    return false
  }
Unless there's a use case for guard I'm not thinking of