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

[Thorsten Seitz]

intersect is a verb so it is fine for mutating.
The noun intersection can then be used for the nonmutating variant.

remove/merge/add/unite sound all good to me for for the mutating variant of union.

-Thorsten 

> Am 11.02.2016 um 20:19 schrieb Craig Cruden <ccruden at novafore.com>:
> 
> 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> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Good idea!
>>> 
>>> -Thorsten
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 11.02.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Craig Cruden <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> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’d like to repeat my suggestion:
>>>>> 
>>>>> mutating (verbs):
>>>>> x.intersect(x)
>>>>> x.add(x)
>>>>> x.subtract(x)
> 
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