[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0065 A New Model for Collections and Indices

Brent Royal-Gordon brent at architechies.com
Tue Apr 12 19:14:04 CDT 2016


>> Huh, that clarifies something. How about the non-`ing` variants?
>> 
>> 	collection.travel(5, from: i)
>> 	collection.stride(5, from: i)
>> 	collection.advance(i, by: 5)
> 
> Active verb phrases are reserved for methods with side-effects according
> to the API guidelines.

Is there *any* way of using a verb to indicate an argument is being modified? If not, I think that's a serious omission in the API guidelines.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
Architechies



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