Providing a default value for an Optional in Swift?

Question

The idiom for dealing with optionals in Swift seems excessively verbose, if all you want to do is provide a default value in the case where it\'s nil:

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Answer 1

As of Aug 2014 Swift has coalescing operator (??) that allows that. For example, for an optional String myOptional you could write:

result = myOptional ?? "n/a"