[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0032: Add find method to SequenceType

[Max Moiseev]

HI all,

After having discussed this proposal with the members of the standard library team, we would like to propose the following updates:

- Since both the language and the standard library have evolved since it was written, the proposal should reflect these changes (things like renaming `Generator` to `Iterator`, adjusting for first argument label rules etc.)
(Actually, while writing this, I discovered https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/276)
- We believe that renaming `find(_:)` to `first(where:)` would make call sites more clear

// original proposal
numbers.find { isPrime($0) }
numbers.find(isPrime)

// suggested update
numbers.first { isPrime($0) }
numbers.first(where: isPrime)

In the examples above, when the predicate is passed as a trailing closure, there is no big difference in the invocation, but it changes when we have a named function that we would like to use as a predicate.
The Collection protocol already has a property called `first`, that returns an optional element, it also has a method `index(where:)`. In this sense `first(where:)` does not introduce new words to the library vocabulary.

max

> On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Hello Swift community,
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