<div dir="ltr">I like mapAndUnwrap , but just for the record I'd like to add <div>"mapThenUnwrap"</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not a native english, but i think "and" doesn't convey as much meaning relative to the order of the operation as "then".</div><div><br></div><div>As a sidenote, if we go this road I think flatMap should also be the object of a renaming proposal. we would have </div><div>map, </div><div>mapThenFlatten and </div><div>mapThenUnwrap.</div><div><br></div><div>It doesn't look as functional style programming as flatMap and filterMap , but it's IMHO incredibly clearer. I remember being very puzzled by flatMap the first time is discovered it and its type signature, making me think it was "a different kind" of map, instead of a map plus something more in the end of the process.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Jean-Daniel via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Here's a variety of possible new names, in descending order of personal preference:</div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mapUnwrappingSome</font></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">mapAndUnwrap // Thanks Nevin, this is surprisingly clear.</span><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mapUnwrapSome</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mapUnwrapIfSome</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mapSome // For these last three, it's unclear when nil elements are dropped. Before or after the map?</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mapNonNil</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mapStrippingNil</font></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>An other explicit alternative</div><div><br></div><div>mapIfNotNil()</div><div><br></div><br></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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