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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by lalaithion on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:49AM (#18998936)
Right, but isn't `?.` just syntactic sugar on `Option::and_then`? Is this a patent on a piece of syntactic sugar, or is it a patent on the idea of chaining optional values?
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