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

[Xiaodi Wu]

Quick thought:

Why are you reaching for the "form..." rule for the mutating methods when
there are clear verb counterparts?
location: locate
successor: succeed


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> on Wed Apr 20 2016, Chris Lattner <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 10, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Chris Lattner
> > <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello Swift community,
> >
> >     The review of "A New Model for Collections and Indices" begins now
> and runs
> >     through April 18th. The proposal is available here:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0065-collections-move-indices.md
> >
> >     Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All
> reviews
> >     should be sent to the swift-evolution mailing list at:
> >     https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
> >     or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to the
> review
> >     manager.
> >
> > A quick update: the core team met to discuss this. They agreed to accept
> it with
> > some naming-related revisions to the proposal (in response to community
> > feedback). Dave is organizing this feedback, and I’ll send out the formal
> > announcement when that is ready.
>
> The final revisions are reflected in the latest version of the
> proposal:
>
>
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0065-collections-move-indices.md
>
> Summary:
>
> * We decided to take Shawn Erickson's excellent suggestion
>   <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/14450> to
>   use “location” uniformly for index movement, so instead of
>   successor(i) and predecessor(i) we have location(after: i) and
>   location(before: i).
>
> * Since Brent Royal-Gordon pointed out
>   <
> http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=156D8FB1%2d1FD3%2d448E%2d8C70%2d6E7400629BC0%40architechies.com
> >
>   that two of the three proposed Range protocols would likely disappear
>   in future updates, we took another look at all of them.  Finding
>   `RangeProtocol` itself to be a very weak abstraction, we removed all
>   three from the proposal.
>
> For those interested in details, implementation work proceeds apace on
> the swift-3-indexing-model branch at
> <
> https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/swift-3-indexing-model/stdlib/public/core
> >.
>
> P.S. If anyone is interested in contributing, there are still plenty of
> FIXMEs left for us to handle ;-)
>
> --
> Dave
>
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