[swift-evolution] Proposal for Replacing Keyword "subscript" with "subs"‏

[Jack Lawrence]

It’s non-obvious to me that “subs” is short for subscript, whereas “init” and “func” have only one obvious expansion.

Jack 
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Feijian Sun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have a proposal to replace the long keyword "subscript" with the shorter version, "subs". The idea is to keep the concise naming style on the language keywords, like "init" and "func".
> 
> So, Instead of:
> 
> subscript(index: Int) -> Int {
>         ... ...
> }
> 
> we could simply do:
> 
> subs(index: Int) -> Int{
>         ... ...
> }
> 
> Does this mean a big change on the parser side? what do you think?
> 
> Thank you!
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