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

[Preston Sumner]

> On Feb 2, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Kevin Schlei via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the premature send! Continuing:
> 
> let content = listItemView.text.trimming(.whitespaceAndNewlines)
> 
> For a beginning programmer, there is no indication of what .trimming does. In this case, it returns a new string instance. Where is that explained? In the documentation. Nowhere near the method call.

To me, it reads like documentation: “content” is assigned the list item view’s text, trimming whitespace and newlines. 

Preston

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