<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Pushkar,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We decided to keep the NS on NSRegularExpression because we know that a strong goal for the Swift language is to have built-in support for regex. We wanted to be cautious about taking the name without knowing more about how that feature would shake out.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We should get a JIRA filed or a PR up to put the NS back for the class name in swift-corelibs-foundation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">- Tony</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 16, 2016, at 6:16 AM, Pushkar N Kulkarni via swift-corelibs-dev <<a href="mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" class=""><div class="">Hello, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The NS prefix from NSRegularExpression seems to have been dropped only in open source Foundation. On Darwin the class is still called NSRegularExpression.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/master/Foundation/NSRegularExpression.swift#L30" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/master/Foundation/NSRegularExpression.swift#L30</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I went through the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0086-drop-foundation-ns.md" title="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0086-drop-foundation-ns.md" class="">Drop NS prefix proposal</a> but couldn't relate this to any of the rules mentioned there (except for a possibility that we will have a RegularExpression value type in future only on Darwin!)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there any particular reason for this difference?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font class=""><font class=""><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal;" class="">Thanks in advance!</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""><font face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Pushkar N Kulkarni,</font></div>
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