Is there anything in the stdlib that allows zipping two collections together, but padding the result with nulls if one collection is shorter? Kind of like

fun <T, R> Iterable<T>.zipPadded(other: Iterable<R>): List<Pair<T?,R?>>

There's a request for that function: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-13017

Thank you

Could you describe your use case, here or in that issue?

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