Swift good coding practice: If statement with optional type Bool

Question

So I\'ve been developing an app in Swift, and today I spent nearly an hour debugging a problem that turned out to be completely unexpected. It all resulted from the code bel

Answer 1

my advice is to use this nice coalescing ??

if textfieldDate.text?.isEmpty ?? true {
    // the text is either nil or empty but its all we want to know
}