[swift-evolution] Pitch: Renaming CharacterSet to UnicodeScalarSet

[Xiaodi Wu]

Is this really correct? Character and UnicodeScalar are not synonyms. The
Character type represents a character made up of one or more Unicode
scalars (i.e. an extended grapheme cluster). Is a CharacterSet a set of
Unicode-compliant characters that happens to be restricted to those
characters each made up of only a single Unicode scalar, or is it meant to
be a set of Unicode scalars? My read of the Foundation documentation is
that it is the former.


On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Chris: "*Also, it is worth saying that any source breaking change still
> has to have an *
> *ultra-compelling reason to be worth considering.  Despite having a
> framework to *
> *support some source breaking changes, we still want to minimize them
> where *
> *ever possible.*"
>
> Since it seems to be open season on introducing a few, highly focused
> breaking changes, let me throw this one out there.
>
> *Pitch: Renaming CharacterSet to UnicodeScalarSet*
>
> In Swift, String is defined as "a Unicode string value." and a
> "CharacterSet"
> represents a set of Unicode-compliant characters.
>
> A CharacterSet's initializers are:
>
>    - init()
>    - init<S>(S)
>    - init(arrayLiteral: UnicodeScalar...)
>    - init(bitmapRepresentation: Data)
>    - init(charactersIn: ClosedRange<UnicodeScalar>)
>    - init(charactersIn: String)
>    - init(charactersIn: Range<UnicodeScalar>)
>    - init?(contentsOfFile: String)
>
>
> Why not rename `CharacterSet` to `UnicodeScalarSe`t, and update the
> initializers
> to reflect they're being initialized from the unicode scalars in strings
> and ranges?
> I think the few places where the word `character` is left mentioned (in
> convenience
> properties) can be better named from `punctuationCharacters` to
> `punctuation`,
> `controlCharacters` to `controlAndFormat`, etc.
>
> -- E
>
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