<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></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 27 Aug 2016, at 02:01, Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">This change is going to have a HUGE impact for me. I use this sort of comparison _all the time_ and find it incredibly useful, and have had literally zero bugs caused by this. Surely I can't be the only one who uses this. I am not looking forward to copying & pasting a reimplementation of the comparison functions into every single project I work on.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Can you give some examples as to how this will have such a huge impact? Now that we have the ?? operator it seems that this is fairly easy to replace:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>value < 5 // where value is of type Int?</font></div><div><br class=""></div><div>With:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(value ?? 0) < 5</font></div><div><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div><br class=""></div><div>The latter is completely clear what the behaviour of nil is.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Also, you can still re-add the operators where you need them, ideally with as limited a type as possible so you can make sure that it's behaviour is well defined.</div></body></html>