[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Naming directives

[Jordan Rose]

I agree that camel-case is more readable than all-lowercase, although the only all-lowercase names currently are '#dsohandle' (very rarely used) and '#elseif' / '#endif'. I also have a knee-jerk reaction against '#endIf'; somehow '#EndIf' doesn't seem quite as bad to me.

I can see the argument for naming the expression-like directives like values. I'm not sure whether it's necessary that the non-expression-like directives follow the same naming convention. Something to explore.

Jordan


> On Feb 25, 2016, at 11:06, Антон Жилин via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Currently, Swift follows all-lower convention for #-directives. We haven't discussed it much, but just derived it from a few existing directives we have.
> Now people invent new directives: #setline, #fileliteral. Now it becomes obvious that lowercase just breaks down for anything long enough. CamelCase is much more clear (read distinguishable) than thatlowercasemess. Compare:
> 
> #colorliteral   vs   #colorLiteral
> #imageliteral   vs   #imageLiteral
> #setline   vs   #setLine
> 
> Directives read like functions:
> 
> #fileLiteral(resourceName: "name")
> #setLine(1)
> #available(iOS 8.0, *)
> 
> One may say that their arguments aren't really Swift values and objects, but that's why they are directives, after all.
> 
> #if stands out a bit, but the change will not affect it.
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