[swift-evolution] [Accepted and Focused Re-review] SE-0187: Introduce Sequence.filterMap(_:)

[Stephen Celis]

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 4:15 PM, David Hart via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I’m very much against a term like compactMap because it uses the term compact which has no precedence in Swift’s Standard Library.

I don’t really care what the name ends up being (as long as it’s not “flatMap”), but you do bring up something worth addressing.

I imagine a majority of calls to this function are of the lines of “compactMap { $0 }”, so maybe it’s worth adding a helper/alias like “compact()”?

Stephen
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