[swift-evolution] [Proposal draft] Generalized Naming for Any Function

[Douglas Gregor]

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> On Dec 28, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Alex Migicovsky via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 28, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Stephen Celis <stephen.celis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 28, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Alex Migicovsky via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>>> On Dec 27, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>>> Some more things to consider:
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>>>> - Our naming conventions encourage the first parameter to most methods to be unlabeled, so unlabeled parameters come up a lot. I don't think there's a grammatical requirement for an identifier before each colon; maybe we can leave out the underscore and use `foo(:bar:)` instead of `foo(_:bar:)` to refer to unlabeled arguments.
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>>> At first glance it seems like we can remove the parens altogether if we went with this approach. Could instance.`foo:bar:` work (instance.`foo` in the no-arg case)? I’m not sure how removing parens would work for inits and subscripts though.
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>> While the conventions encourage the first parameter to be unlabeled, it doesn't enforce it (and there are exceptions in the standard library, like `removeAll(keepCapacity:)`, as well as `stride(to:…)` and `stride(through:…)`.
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>> Stephen
> 
> Ah right, great point :-)

... And initializers, which often have a labeled first argument, also need to fit the syntax. 

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> - Alex
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