Most humbly, I think "expand" could be an interesting name for this operation. 
It seems it hasn't come up, but I could be wrong.

Best regards,
Pierre

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> On 05 May 2016, at 01:50, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> unfold(_:applying:) - This addition is *rejected* by the core team as 
> written, but deserves more discussion in the community, and potentially could 
> be the subject of a future proposal.  The core team felt that the utility of 
> this operation is high enough to be worth including in the standard library, 
> but could not find an acceptable name for it.  “unfold” is problematic, 
> despite its precedence in other language, because Swift calls the 
> corresponding operation “reduce” and not “fold”.  No one could get excited 
> about “unreduce”.   “iterate” was also considered, but a noun is more 
> appropriate than an verb in this case.  Given the lack of a good name, the 
> core team preferred to reject to let the community discuss it more.
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