[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Modernizing Attribute Case and Attribute Argument Naming

[David Waite]

If you are taking votes, I would say lower camel case (since the attribute names are not types).

Visually I dislike @objC and @nonObjC, but there’s already a discussion ongoing about how to deal with abbreviations in names.

-DW

> On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:43 AM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Do you have an alternative suggestion? I can add the following to the Alternatives Considered:
> 
> Using lowercase for attributes names becomes confusing with longer compound examples. For example `warnunusedresult`
> looks a lot like a continuous string of lowercase characters. I recommend the Swift team consider introducing upper camel case
> for attributes to match the Cocoa members (UIApplicationMain, NSManaged, NSCopying, NSApplicationMain, IBAction, IBDesignable, IBInspectable, IBOutlet) or lower
> camel case to avoid this issue:
> 
> @AutoClosure, @Available, @ObjC, @NoEscape, @NonObjC, @NoReturn, @Testable, @WarnUnusedResult, @Convention, @NoReturn
> 
> or
> 
> @autoClosure, @available, @objC, @noEscape, @nonObjC, @noReturn, @testable, @warnUnusedResult, @convention, @noReturn
> 
> -- E
> 
> 
>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com <mailto:gribozavr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>>> For your consideration: Attribute Ophidiophobia. Feedback and suggestions
>>> welcome. -- Erica
>>> 
>>> Modernizing Attribute Case and Attribute Argument Naming
>>> 
>>> Proposal: TBD
>>> Author(s): Erica Sadun
>>> Status: TBD
>>> Review manager: TBD
>>> 
>>> Introduction
>>> 
>>> Two isolated instances of snake case remain in the Swift attribute grammar.
>>> This proposal updates those elements to bring them into compliance with
>>> modern Swift language standards.
>>> 
>>> The Swift-Evolution discussion of this topic took place in the "[Discussion]
>>> Modernizing Attribute Case and Attribute Argument Naming" thread. Hat tip to
>>> Michael Wells
>>> 
>>> Motivation and Detail Design
>>> 
>>> Parts of the Swift attribute grammar retain lower snake case patterns that
>>> no longer match modern conventions:
>>> 
>>> The warn_unused_result attribute should use lowercase and be renamed
>>> warnunusedresult.
>> 
>> Hi Erica,
>> 
>> Maybe it is just me, but I find @warnunusedresult to be unreadable --
>> it looks like a continuous string of lowercase characters at a glance.
>> 
>> Dmitri
>> 
>> --
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>> (j){printf("%d\n",i);}}} /*Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com <mailto:gribozavr at gmail.com>>*/
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