Swift snippet #9 — then

Monday, 6th February, 2017

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Whenever we have to safely unwrap an optional value, we generally have 2 options —

1. if let
2. guard let

Both solutions are great & there’s nothing wrong with them 👍 But I feel safely unwrapping could get little better 🤔 Thus I made an extension on Optional & created a function then which executes a closure having its unwrapped value only if some exists! It could be used something like this:

let name: String? = "Ritesh"
name.then { print($0) }

where $0 is the unwrapped value which you can use to your need 🚀

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