[swift-evolution] Issues with 0005-Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift

[Dave Abrahams]

on Tue Feb 02 2016, Kevin Schlei <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> I am strongly against the proposed changes to the translation of
> Objective-C APIs. I think the changes promote terseness for terseness sake,
> lose vital context in method names, and are a huge loss pedagogically.
>
> If you teach programming, you'll know why this line will be a nightmare:
>
> let content = listItemView.text.trimming(.whitespaceAndNewlines)

I spent many years teaching programming, and It's not obvious to me.
How about spelling it out for the rest of us?

-- 
-Dave