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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Thu Feb 11 2016, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> This is an interesting bit of historical perspective. Dave--may I ask
> a naive question?
>
> The proposal as shown is extensive. Would it be within reach/easier to
> pitch/feasible to implement a narrower set of changes to facilitate
> naming convention only? Namely: alter Swift syntax to allow function
> names to begin with "=" and adopt naming conventions that
> mutating/non-mutating pairs of functions are named
> =frobnicate()/frobnicate()? That would, it seems, go a long way.

It might be more feasible.  I'm guessing it's out of scope for Swift 3,
of course.

>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> For the record, I do not feel at all confident anything like this will
>> end up in swift.  This feature was proposed back in 2013, before Swift
>> was released, eventually accepted then not implemented because we were
>> out of time, then revised, then re-accepted and implemented, then ripped
>> out of the compiler because of various concerns about what it does to
>> the shape of the language (e.g. is this just a second version of
>> “mutating?”  What about classes?).  Based on history, I don't think it's
>> a sure bet, and I personally may be out of energy and time to fight for
>> it.  But we'll have to see...

-- 
-Dave