[swift-evolution] rename dropFirst() and dropLast()

[Charles Srstka]

> On Dec 28, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Michel Fortin via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Really? The convention says: "When a mutating method is described by a verb, name its non-mutating counterpart according to the “ed/ing” rule, e.g. the non-mutating versions of x.sort() and x.append(y) are x.sorted() and x.appending(y)."

That’s really ironic, given that sort() on Array in the standard library is the non-mutating version (the mutating version is called sortInPlace).

Charles

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