# Description
This change allows `compact` to also compact things with empty strings,
empty lists, and empty records if the `--empty` switch is used. Let's
add a quality-of-life improvement here to just compact all this mess. If
this is a bad idea, please cite examples demonstrating why.
```
❯ [[name position]; [Francis Lead] [Igor TechLead] [Aya null]] | compact position
╭#┬─name──┬position╮
│0│Francis│Lead │
│1│Igor │TechLead│
╰─┴───────┴────────╯
❯ [[name position]; [Francis Lead] [Igor TechLead] [Aya ""]] | compact position --empty
╭#┬─name──┬position╮
│0│Francis│Lead │
│1│Igor │TechLead│
╰─┴───────┴────────╯
❯ [1, null, 2, "", 3, [], 4, {}, 5] | compact
╭─┬─────────────────╮
│0│ 1│
│1│ 2│
│2│ │
│3│ 3│
│4│[list 0 items] │
│5│ 4│
│6│{record 0 fields}│
│7│ 5│
╰─┴─────────────────╯
❯ [1, null, 2, "", 3, [], 4, {}, 5] | compact --empty
╭─┬─╮
│0│1│
│1│2│
│2│3│
│3│4│
│4│5│
╰─┴─╯
```
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