What does an exclamation mark mean in the Swift language?

Question

The Swift Programming Language guide has the following example:

class Person {
    let name: String
    init(name: String) { self.name = name }
    var apar         


        

Answer 1

In Short (!): After you have declare a variable and that you are certain the variable is holding a value.

let assumedString: String! = "Some message..."
let implicitString: String = assumedString

else you would have to do this on every after passing value...

let possibleString: String? = "An optional string."
let forcedString: String = possibleString! // requires an exclamation mark