[swift-evolution] SetAlgebra naming update

T.J. Usiyan griotspeak at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 17:07:37 CDT 2016


I think that this is a great improvement and is consistent enough to
accept. `form` will take some getting used to.
TJ

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:39 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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