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

[Jose Cheyo Jimenez]

> On Jul 21, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Duan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> 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.

what about areEqual() ?

> 
> 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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