From a19efad7fc938c2e505582a3541a3c083d0f85c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Rokita <kyle.rokita@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:12:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Added nil-coalescing operator

---
 swift.html.markdown | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/swift.html.markdown b/swift.html.markdown
index b6554dc6..c17510b6 100644
--- a/swift.html.markdown
+++ b/swift.html.markdown
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ if let someOptionalStringConstant = someOptionalString {
     }
 }
 
+// The nil-coalescing operator ?? unwraps an optional if it contains a non-nil value, or returns a default value.
+var someOptionalString: String?
+let someString = someOptionalString ?? "abc"
+print(someString) // abc
+
 // Swift has support for storing a value of any type.
 // For that purposes there is two keywords: `Any` and `AnyObject`
 // `AnyObject` == `id` from Objective-C