[swift-evolution] Discussion: Last chance to rename .self and .Self?

[Brandon Knope]

Thanks! I will take a look

Brandon

> On Jul 15, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> You might have a look at our discussion thread. There is a huge overlap on your bikeshedding.
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> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon–20160711/024439.html
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> Am 15. Juli 2016 um 21:25:50, Brandon Knope via swift-evolution (swift-evolution at swift.org) schrieb:
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>> July 27th is last day for breaking source changes for Swift 3...so I thought I would bring this up one final time. 
>> 
>> Opinions:
>> - .self and .Self do not adequately convey what they do without some mental gymnastics
>> - self has somewhat two meanings (accessing a property on the type and getting the type of the object)
>> - We can get into a funky situation where we have self.someVar.self which looks odd (though symmetric!)
>> - What do we call these two selves? Postfix and prefix self? (I.e. Is it googleable?)
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>> 
>> Ideas:
>> - rename to .type and .Type
>> - more bikeshedding? There has to be a better way to express these types other than .self and .Self
>> 
>> Brandon 
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