[swift-evolution] [SHORT Review] SE-0132: Rationalizing Sequence end-operation names

[Saagar Jha]

There’s remove, which is mutating in that it actually removes the elements from the target. removing, on the other hand is nonmutating and basically gives a copy and then removes from the copy.
Saagar Jha



> On Jul 25, 2016, at 21:21, Boris Wang via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> "When the operation is naturally described by a verb, use the verb’s imperative for the mutating method and apply the “ed” or “ing” suffix to name its nonmutating counterpart."
> 
> I known it. But, the "verb" here should be a action will change the object. Not every verb will change the object.
> 
> Like the word: peek ,copy.
> 
> In socket program, there's a action "peek", just check if there has new data in socket data buffer, not move out the data(like the API receive()). It's not "receiving".
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> Daniel Duan <daniel at duan.org <mailto:daniel at duan.org>>于2016年7月26日 周二11:39写道：
> Please read the naming section in Swift API design guidelines https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/#naming <https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/#naming>
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> 
> Daniel Duan
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jul 25, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Boris Wang via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> I am curious about the reason using "removing",
>> What we are doing is not remove, just selecting some elements from the original collection.
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