<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 24, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Joe Pamer <<a href="mailto:jpamer@apple.com" class="">jpamer@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">On May 24, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Jordan Rose via swift-dev <<a href="mailto:swift-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-dev@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">I wouldn’t phrase it this way. “nil” could just as easily been above all of the integers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We added overloads for < and friends that took optionals so that you could sort an array by passing < and get something reasonable out without having to provide your own comparison function, but you’re not the first to find it counterintuitive. We could consider removing it (going through the <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md" class="">Swift Evolution Process</a>).</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the ideas that Joe Pamer has been discussing is whether the implicit promotion from T to T? should be disabled when in an operator context. Doing so would fix problems like this, but making the code invalid.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Joe, is this something that you think will come up for discussion in the Swift 3 timeframe?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Yes - I believe so. I’ve been collecting my notes on the topic, with the hopes of getting a pitch out to swift-evolution soon.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Awesome, thanks!</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Chris</div></body></html>