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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Thu Apr 07 2016, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> If we're going to bikeshed again: how about "assign"?

It begs for a preposition, which is usually “to,” which has the wrong
meaning :(

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:08 PM Taras Zakharko via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>     replaceWith* is also my favourite here (same for *InPlace). Sure, it might
>     be verbose, but the semantics is very clear and seems apply to a wide range
>     of relevant situations. In the end, there are hundreds if not more messages
>     in this (and related) threads and i am sure that you guys spent even more
>     time in meetings talking about this. If I understand correctly, Swifts goal
>     is clarity over laconicity. If finding sensible laconic terminology turns
>     out to be surprisingly difficult, a more verbose one might be a better
>     choice after all.
>
>     — Taras
>
>     > On 07 Apr 2016, at 22:36, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution
>     <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > on Mon Apr 04 2016, Brent Royal-Gordon <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.
>     >
>     > It's at least very explicit. We did consider that, and chose “form” as
>     > a more reasonable convention. However, we weren't thinking of the
>     > “from” problem. I prefer “replaceWith” over “become” for some reason I
>     > can't identify.
>     >
>     >> 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.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Dave
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Dave