<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 Jul 11, 2016, at 8:14 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">You'd have to unwrap it, or use the ??/==/!= operators: <a href="https://gist.github.com/jtbandes/9d88cc83ceceb6c62f38" class="">https://gist.github.com/jtbandes/9d88cc83ceceb6c62f38</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'd be okay with </<=/>/>= returning Bool?, as I suggested in an older email (which somehow didn't make it to gmane's archive, but it's quoted in <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/10095" class="">some other messages</a>). I think it would be more convenient in some cases than unwrapping the individual values before comparing them.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I’d be strongly opposed to those operator returning “Bool?”. Doing so would prevent conforming to Comparable and would be extremely surprising.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Chris</div><br class=""></body></html>