Cross-join two Swift arrays

Here is a Gist I just published on GitHub of a utility function that performs a cross-join between two Swift arrays. This allows you to iterate over one array for every element in another array, and return an optional value built for each pair of array elements.

This code was compiled and tested against Xcode 6 Beta 3.

	extension Array
	{
	func crossJoin<E, R>(
	array: [E],
	joiner: (t: T, e: E) -> R?)
	-> [R]
	{
	return arrayCrossJoin(self, array, joiner)
	}
	}

	/**
	Executes the `joiner` closure for every combination
	of elements between `aArray` and `bArray` and returns
	the resulting objects in the order they were created.
	*/
	func arrayCrossJoin<A, B, R>(
	aArray: [A],
	bArray: [B],
	joiner: (a: A, b: B) -> R?)
	-> [R]
	{
	var results = [R]()
	for a in aArray
	{
	for b in bArray
	{
	if let result = joiner(a: a, b: b)
	{
	results.append(result)
	}
	}
	}
	return results
	}

	let letters = ["A", "B", "C"]
	let numbers = [1, 2]
	let dictionaries = letters.crossJoin(numbers) { [$0: $1] }

	println(dictionaries)
	// Prints: [[A: 1], [A: 2], [B: 1], [B: 2], [C: 1], [C: 2]]

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CrossJoin.swift

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