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Unwrapping Any, in Swift

If Any is not nil, except when it is, how do we check it and unwrap the underlying?

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Did you know Any can be nil? It both makes sense and doesn't. But did you know Optional<Int>.none as Any == nil would return false? No? Me neither.

What else doesn't work then?

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