[swift-evolution] Renaming bitPattern and truncatingBitPattern

[David Turnbull]

I propose upgrading bit-casting labels to match the new API design
guidelines. Here's what we have today:

UInt8(bitPattern: someInt8)
Uint8(truncatingBitPattern: someBiggerInt)

"Bit pattern" has the needless word "pattern" while not reading well due to
the lack of a verb or preposition. Simply "bits" will not be confused with
something else in this context. "Truncating" is the present participle
which is confusing.

I like:
UInt8(fromBits: someInt8)
Uint8(truncateBits: someBiggerInt)

-david


On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> on Tue Feb 16 2016, David Turnbull <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> >
> > My last week was spent reading files with huffman coding. So I had no
> > choice but to use bitwise operations. My experience is that Swift got
> this
> > right (except for "truncatingBitPattern" taking up 25% of an 80 column
> > line).
>
> Suggestions for improved names welcomed.
>
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