Github user markhamstra commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/468#discussion_r9777964 Doesn't need to be `Iterable` itself, but only implicitly `Iterable` (as is `Option`). In fact, what I believe Patrick was suggesting is that `tachyonStore` be made into an `Option` so that the common Scala idiom of `anOption.foreach(doSomethingIfSome(_))` can be used. Even without changing the type of `tachyonStore`, a form of this idiom can be used anywhere `!= null` is used (but that's not a stylistic quirk that we've adopted consistently): `Option(tachyonStore).foreach(_.doSomething)`
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