Here it is 
https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/CollectionAlgorithms.swift.gyb#L26
 
<https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/CollectionAlgorithms.swift.gyb#L26>

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 4:27 PM, Kevin Ballard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We already don't have a .last on CollectionType and nobody's been complaining 
> about that. Besides, sequences don't necessarily even terminate.
>  
> -Kevin Ballard
>  
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015, at 04:01 PM, Daniel Duan wrote:
>> Users who don’t get the single-pass nature of SequenceType may expect a 
>> .last as well.
>>  
>>> On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>  
>>> It's sometimes useful to get the first element of a sequence. To that end 
>>> I'd like to propose
>>>  
>>> extensionSequenceType {
>>> /// Returns the first element of `self`, or `nil` if `self` is empty.
>>> /// - Complexity: O(1)
>>> var first: Self.Generator.Element? {
>>> var gen = generate()
>>> return gen.next()
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>  
>>> I think it makes sense to add this property to the definition of 
>>> SequenceType as well, so various sequences can override it to avoid 
>>> constructing a generator.
>>>  
>>> With this added to SequenceType, we can remove it from CollectionType, as 
>>> the behavior will be the same.
>>>  
>>> -Kevin Ballard
>>> 
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