[swift-evolution] [Guidelines, First Argument Labels]: Prepositions inside the parens

Jordan Rose jordan_rose at apple.com
Thu Feb 11 15:26:32 CST 2016


> On Feb 11, 2016, at 13:24, Dave Abrahams <dabrahams at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> on Thu Feb 11 2016, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose-AT-apple.com <http://at-apple.com/>> wrote:
> 
>> +1. It's not whether the "of" is on its own or not, it's whether it's
>> describing the base noun or extracting something from it.
> 
> Yes, the point is that we are not sure how to reliably detect the
> difference, and the “lonely of” approach makes for a very close
> approximation.

I'd also guess the "of-meaning-having" cases are quite rare.

Jordan

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