[swift-evolution] Proposal: failable numeric conversion initializers

[Stephen Canon]

If we’re going to bikeshed (😀), I have a strong preference for “exact” for this usage.  There would need to be a good reason to diverge from the widely-used IEEE 754 terminology.

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 12:50 PM, Dmitri Gribenko via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:49 AM, thorsten at portableinnovations.de
> <thorsten at portableinnovations.de> wrote:
>> The throwing ones might use "strict", or something similar, i.e.
>> 
>> init(strict value: Int64) throws
> 
> Well, choosing that word is very important :)  "strict" does not imply
> "throwing" to me, FWIW, it is more like "lossless" than "throwing".
> 
> Dmitri
> 
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