[swift-evolution] [Draft][Proposal] Formalized Ordering

[Duan]

Great proposal. I want to second that areSame may mislead user to think this is about identity.

I like areEquivalent() but there may be better names.

Daniel Duan
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> On Jul 21, 2016, at 6:32 PM, Robert Widmann via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jul 21, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This is nice. Is `areSame()` being proposed because static `==` is the status quo and you're trying to make the point that `==` in the future need not guarantee the same semantics?
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> Yep!  Equivalence and equality are strictly very different things.
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>> Nit: I think the more common term in stdlib would be `areEquivalent()`. Do you think `same` in that context (independent of the word "ordering") might erroneously suggest identity?
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> There is room for improvement here.  Keep ‘em coming.
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>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Robert Widmann via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> Hello Swift Community,
>>> 
>>> Harlan Haskins, Jaden Geller, and I have been working on a proposal to clean up the semantics of ordering relations in the standard library.  We have a draft that you can get as a gist.  Any feedback you might have about this proposal helps - though please keeps your comments on Swift-Evolution and not on the gist.
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>>> Cheers,
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>>> ~Robert Widmann
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