[swift-evolution] [Proposal draft #2] Naming Functions with Argument Labels

[Matthew Johnson]

> On Jan 11, 2016, at 3:42 PM, David Owens II via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> I like the proposal. It does illustrate one of the naming conventions I really dislike with Swift (implicitly unnamed first parameter).
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>> let fn1 = someView.insert(subview:aboveSubview:)
> Would have looked so much better. =)

I agree in this case, although there may be cases where unnamed arguments are still better.  This seems like it is at least partly a problem with how existing Cocoa APIs are imported.

> 
> Anyhow, +1 for the proposal.

Agree.  +1 from me as well.  This looks really good.  

Now I’m looking forward to seeing more about lenses so we can also work with getters, setters, and subscripts.

Matthew

> 
> -David
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>> On Jan 11, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I’ve updated and simplified my “Generalized Naming for Any Function” proposal to only deal with naming functions with argument labels, and dropping the back-ticks. Comments welcome! Proposal is here
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>> 	https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md <https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md>
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