# Tweet by [@keefmoon](http://twitter.com/keefmoon) on 2017-03-09 01:09:30 > [!INFO] Archived from [original tweet](http://twitter.com/keefmoon/status/839644278494228481) In reply to: [@lukeredpath](http://twitter.com/lukeredpath/status/839573005445513216) @lukeredpath @rennarda I think explicitly unwrapped optionals (using the ! operator) is a bad code smell. It's rarely the right approach.