<font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div>Thanks for the clarification, Tony. I've created a PR. <br><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><font><font><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal;"><br><font face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pushkar N Kulkarni,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></div></div></div></div></font></font></font></div><br><br><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000"><font color="#990099"><a href="mailto:-----anthony.parker@apple.com" target="_blank">-----anthony.parker@apple.com</a> wrote: -----</font><div class="iNotesHistory" style="padding-left:5px;"><div style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:5px;border-left:solid black 2px;">To: Pushkar N Kulkarni/India/IBM@IBMIN<br>From: Tony Parker <anthony.parker@apple.com><br>Sent by: <a href="mailto:anthony.parker@apple.com" target="_blank">anthony.parker@apple.com</a><br>Date: 09/17/2016 09:49AM<br>Cc: swift-corelibs-dev <<a href="mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [swift-corelibs-dev] NSRegularExpression - NS prefix not dropped on Darwin<br><br><!--Notes ACF
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf8">-->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><div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal;" class=""><font face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">IBM Runtimes</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal;" class=""><font face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="serif, Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><i class="">Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability - Edsger W. Dijkstra</i></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></font></font></font></div></font><br class="">
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