@benleggiero commented on 
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https://kotlinlang.slack.com/files/T09229ZC6/F04AVNRBLNP: That's true. Like I said, I'm not strongly tied to that opinion. Also note that this was partially inspired by how you can't have a 
NullPointerException
 in Kotlin without explicitly saying "yes I know this is a possibility but do it anyway" with 
!!