[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0041: Updating Protocol Naming Conventions for Conversions

[Erica Sadun]

> On May 10, 2016, at 6:51 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On May 10, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
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>> Hello Swift community,
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>> The review of "SE-0041: Updating Protocol Naming Conventions for Conversions" begins now and runs through May 16. The proposal is available here:
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>> 	https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0041-conversion-protocol-conventions.md
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> Here are comments from someone who preferred to stay anonymous.  These are not my own:
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> * What is your evaluation of the proposal?
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> I rather agree with the comments mentioned in the proposal from the Standard Library design team, in that I agree with the basic intention of the proposal, but I’m not convinced about the proposed answer. Specifically:


We'd be happy to bikeshed again.

I think fundamentally our take on this is:

* We want there to be a standard that expresses the three conversion/initialization styles.
* We feel the system is currently broken. And we want to have a coherent and settled vision in place for 3, even imperfect.
* We're flexible about the naming but it should be (1) Swifty and (2) well grounded in meaning.

Let me turn the floor over to Matthew here.

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