[swift-evolution] Some clarity lost from the great renaming

[Hooman Mehr]

Is changing the mapping of Cocoa API considered a source breaking change or can we report such incidents as bugs if we think they don’t match API guidelines?

> On Oct 18, 2016, at 6:43 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> on Tue Oct 18 2016, Brandon Knope <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> 
>> I meant to bring this up a bit ago but just came across it again.
>> 
>> I find this to not read properly:
>> 
>> button.setTitle("Test", for: .normal) //for normal what?
>> 
>> The for argument is really only clear in meaning when you are typing
>> it out and see that it is a UIControlState type. While reading it
>> without this context is it as clear? .normal doesn't seem descriptive
>> enough on its own.
>> 
>> Contrast this with UISegmentedControl:
>> segmented.dividerImage(forLeftSegmentState: .normal, rightSegmentState: .normal, barMetrics:
>> .default)
>> 
>> Here the parameter labels are needed because there needs to be a
>> distinction in the method between left and right. But here it is not
>> forLeft: or forRight: it is the much more clear forLeftSegmentState:
>> 
>> So my question is: why was this not setTitle(forControlState:) or forButtonState, etc...?
> 
> This is really not an evolution question at this point.  I suggest
> filing radars against UIKit for things whose names could be improved.
> 
> -- 
> -Dave
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