[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0023 API Design Guidelines

[Jeff Kelley]

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> How do you handle naming non-mutating versions of these operations? Conjugating other irregular verbs also imposes a barrier on developers whose first language is not English.

Swift could use “after” as a prefix, or something similar.

array.sort()
array.afterSort()

I was tempted to say “afterSorting()” but that has the same problems mentioned above.


Jeff Kelley

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