[swift-evolution] RFC: didset and willset

[Matthew Johnson]

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> On May 20, 2016, at 1:11 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On May 18, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I may be wrong but I don't remember any other case of a keyword in
>>> Swift composed of two or more words, so I believe these should be
>>> exceptions.
>> 
>> `typealias` and `associatedtype` are the main examples; there were huge catfights on swift-evolution about whether the latter should be `associatedtype`, `associatedType`, or `associated_type`. There are also a number of attributes like `@noescape` and `@discardableResult`, which aren't 100% consistent.
> 
> Right, but the catfight had a clear outcome:
> 
> 1) keywords are conjoined
> 2) attributes are lower camel cased.
> 3) attributes should use “non” not “no”.  noescape should be nonescaping (and thus no camel bump).

Would you be in favor of a proposal that cleans all of this up at once and establishes this standard for all new features?  I don't mind the change and think consistency is a good idea, I just think it doesn't make sense to keep doing these as one-off changes.

> 
> -Chris
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