[swift-evolution] API Guidelines: dropFirst?

[Jonathan Hull]

…Thus, I don’t really see the harm in renaming these to match the rest of Swift.  It won’t cause any confusion that can’t be easily recovered from.  I was outvoted on that though…

Thanks,
Jon
 
> On Jun 16, 2016, at 5:01 AM, Jonathan Hull <jhull at gbis.com> wrote:
> 
> I mean that *IF* we were to rename ‘map’ to ‘mapped’, the compiler would catch this and could recommend the new name.  Even if we add a mutating version called ‘map’, it would still catch this case because the mutating version would have a void return.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
> 
>> On Jun 16, 2016, at 4:57 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon <brent at architechies.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The signatures are also different, so:
>>> 
>>> let newList = list.map(…)
>>> 
>>> would throw an error because I have the signature wrong.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean by this. What is the error? Why? Does it have something to do with the code you imagine is elided by the ellipses?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Brent Royal-Gordon
>> Architechies
>> 
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