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> On 30 Aug 2016, at 05:00, Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016, at 01:28 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution wrote:
>> 
>>> on Fri Aug 26 2016, Kevin Ballard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Goddammit. I completely missed this thread, because Pipermail
>>> regularly decides not to deliver the swift-evolution-announce version
>>> of review threads (which means they bypass my inbox). Why does it do
>>> this? Most of the emails get delivered, but it just skips some of
>>> them, and I keep ending up missing review threads because of it.
>>> 
>>> This change is going to have a HUGE impact for me. I use this sort of
>>> comparison _all the time_ and find it incredibly useful, and have had
>>> literally zero bugs caused by this. Surely I can't be the only one who
>>> uses this. I am not looking forward to copying & pasting a
>>> reimplementation of the comparison functions into every single project
>>> I work on.
>> 
>> It's very easy to write your own versions of these operators, should you
>> choose to keep using them.  From that standpoint, I don't see why the
>> impact has to be huge.
> 
> You could make the same argument for a lot of stuff the stdlib provides. For 
> example, let's remove Optional.map since it's trivial to reimplement.
> 

I think a case for removing it may be how much Optional.map is used to work 
around any pains regarding using optionals.

> The problem is, if I have to reimplement this thing in every single project I 
> touch, that's a huge impact. I shouldn't have to copy & paste a bunch of code 
> into every single project. I'm already doing this with my replace(_:with:) 
> function that you guys (Swift core team; I forget exactly who) didn't like, 
> but that's at least simpler than the Optional comparison operators, and is 
> only one function (and it's easier to work around the lack of this function 
> if I don't want to reimplement it for a particular use).
> 
> -Kevin
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