Yeah but it seems clear from the return type so I am not sure that much confusion would really exist.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:57 PM Brent Royal-Gordon <<a href="mailto:brent@architechies.com">brent@architechies.com</a>> wrote:<br></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;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 13, 2017, at 10:11 AM, Shawn Erickson via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_1125014498606949838Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:02 AM C. Keith Ray via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></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"><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>You said "compact" removes nil values, so I'd name it "removeNils".</div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></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"><div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto">Terms like "ignoring" and "skipping".</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote><br></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></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br><div>
<span class="m_1125014498606949838Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">-- </div><div style="font-size:12px">Brent Royal-Gordon</div><div style="font-size:12px">Architechies</div></div></span>
</div>
<br></div></blockquote></div>