== Why is this an issue?

Because force casting (``++as!++``) does not perform any type safety validations, it is capable of performing dangerous conversions between unrelated types. When the types are truly unrelated, the cast will cause a system crash.

=== Noncompliant code example

[source,swift]
----
foo as! MyClass  // Noncompliant
----

=== Compliant solution

[source,swift]
----
foo as? MyClass
----

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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

Replace this force cast with a safer cast.


=== Highlighting

``++as!++``


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== Comments And Links
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=== on 8 Jul 2016, 20:30:55 Ann Campbell wrote:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25708649/downcasting-optionals-in-swift-as-type-or-as-type

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