[swift-evolution] Swift case conventions for Enums

Erica Sadun erica at ericasadun.com
Mon Dec 21 18:44:20 CST 2015


I'm a camelCapsaPhile, and not ashamed to pronounce my preference for it for enum cases, for global functions, and global constants.

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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Michael Wells via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> I love that Swift has a published API design guidelines at https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines.html <https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines.html>, but one thing about it bugs me: the use of UpperCamelCase for cases. I know this ship has long sailed, but why didn't the team choose lowerCamelCase for these? The current style seems inconsistent and requires an “instances are lowerCamelCase, aside from Enums” clarification.
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> Using lowerCamelCase makes sense to me; I've proposed a similar change in the past. Doug, was any decision about enum constant case made as part of the API naming guidelines?
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> -Joe
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