[swift-evolution] ed/ing, InPlace, Set/SetAlgebra naming resolution

[Craig Cruden]

I was trying to think of a non mathematical term for intersect in a mutating manner….

but that one is hard…. the only thing that came to mind was “overlap” but I don’t think anyone would find it (maybe not a bad thing :p )


> On 2016-02-12, at 2:05:59, Craig Cruden <ccruden at novafore.com> wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of maybe:
> 
> x.remove(x) for subtract (java mutable remove).  
> 
>> On 2016-02-12, at 2:00:41, Thorsten Seitz <tseitz42 at icloud.com <mailto:tseitz42 at icloud.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Good idea!
>> 
>> -Thorsten
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 11.02.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Craig Cruden <ccruden at novafore.com <mailto:ccruden at novafore.com>>:
>>> 
>>> or x.merge(x) for mutating union.
>>> 
>>>> On 2016-02-12, at 1:49:23, Thorsten Seitz via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’d like to repeat my suggestion:
>>>> 
>>>> mutating (verbs):
>>>> x.intersect(x)
>>>> x.add(x)
>>>> x.subtract(x)
>>> 
>> 
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