ExpressibleByNilLiteral

protocol ExpressibleByNilLiteral

A type that can be initialized using the nil literal, nil.

nil has a specific meaning in Swift---the absence of a value. Only the Optional type conforms to ExpressibleByNilLiteral. ExpressibleByNilLiteral conformance for types that use nil for other purposes is discouraged.

See Also: Optional

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Import import Swift

Initializers

init(nilLiteral:) Required

Creates an instance initialized with nil.

Declaration

init(nilLiteral: ())