[swift-evolution] SetAlgebra naming update

[Dave Abrahams]

on Thu Mar 24 2016, Xiaodi Wu <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Much improved, IMO. A few thoughts:
> * typo in "formSymmetricDifference"

Thanks, fixed.

> * I don't know about the preposition "from" in "form symmetric difference
> from" (also, inconsistent, because you don't have "form union with")

Good point.  What would you suggest?  We could use “with:” everywhere in
the “formXXX” methods...

> * "form" is fine, but scans similarly to "from" when reading quickly

That's a good point.  Maybe that's another good reason to drop “from:”
as a preposition in formSymmetricDifference.

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:41 PM Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just an update:
>>
>> The naming guidelines working group went back into negotiation over
>> the shape of SetAlgebra (and thus, Set and OptionSet) for
>> Swift 3, and reached a new consensus.  We intend to bring forward a
>> proposal for the API shown here:
>>
>>   http://dabrahams.github.io/swift-naming/SetAlgebra-Math.html
>>
>> and to update the guidelines to suggest using the "form" prefix to
>> create a verb phrase for a mutating method when the operation is
>> fundamentally non-mutating and described by a noun.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Dave
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