[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0059: Update API Naming Guidelines and Rewrite Set APIs Accordingly

[Sean Heber]

This has been a very long and complex thread, but have some of these not-technically-mathy word pairs that have nice verb forms been considered:

union -> combine / combining
intersection -> intersect / intersecting
symmetricDifference -> split / splitting

Example:

var allowedUsers = Set<User>()
allowedUsers.combine(standardUsers)
allowedUsers.combine(superUsers)

var users = allUsers
users.intersect(allowedUsers)

let users = allUsers.intersecting(allowedUsers)

l8r
Sean



> On Apr 4, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> Indeed, OED points out that modern usage is "chiefly military." Probably an argument against its usage here.
> 
> It seems to me that what you're sort of saying is "replaceWith", but that's kind of a mouthful. A quick thesaurus check suggests that the only decent single-world alternative would be "substitute", but that sounds like a regex operation. I think this is a dead end.
> 
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