[swift-evolution] RFC: didset and willset

[Chris Lattner]

> On May 20, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> I’d prefer one proposal to cover didset/willset and one to cover nonescaping (and any other nofoo attributes left).    They will raise different sorts of discussion, even though they both seem obvious to me.
> 
> Before putting together a proposal, are there any other de-facto rules besides the three already listed that touch on naming keywords and attributes? (I suppose no snake case is a given)

I think that these are the relevant rules.  As I mentioned upthread, .dynamicType is broken for a different reason, and thus leads to a different solution (it should be a global function in the stdlib, not a propery).

-Chris