<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2017, at 10:11 AM, Shawn Erickson via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="">On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:02 AM C. Keith Ray via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">You said "compact" removes nil values, so I'd name it "removeNils".</div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class="">Terms like "ignoring" and "skipping".</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Keep in mind that this does *slightly* more than just remove nils—it also removes a level of optionality so that it isn't *possible* for there to be nils anymore. It's the difference between `if let foo = foo` and `if foo != nil`.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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