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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thank you for responding so late!<div><br></div><div>I agree with you that "subs" is not very obvious for subscript. While learning swift, I have a feeling that it contains so many long words as the keywords, such as</div><div><br></div><div>fallthrough, dynamicType, associativity, convenience, nonmutating, precedence, etc..</div><div><br></div><div>I understand there is a need for clarity. But I think it's also important to keep a concise and simple naming style where it's possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again.</div><div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: Re: [swift-evolution] Proposal for Replacing Keyword "subscript" with "subs"ž<br>From: jackl@apple.com<br>Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:22:55 -0800<br>CC: swift-evolution@swift.org<br>To: feijian_sun@hotmail.com<br><br>It’s non-obvious to me that “subs” is short for subscript, whereas “init” and “func” have only one obvious expansion.<div><br></div><div>Jack <br><div><blockquote><div>On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Feijian Sun via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;line-height:21.3px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hello, </span><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height:21.3px;"></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have a proposal to replace the long keyword "subscript" with the shorter version, "subs". The idea is to keep the concise naming style on the language keywords, like "init" and "func".</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height:21.3px;"></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">So, Instead of:</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height:21.3px;"></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">subscript(index: Int) -> Int {</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ... ...</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">}</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height:21.3px;"></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">we could simply do:</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height:21.3px;"></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">subs(index: Int) -> Int{</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="line-height:21.3px;"> ... ...</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;">}</div></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height:21.3px;"></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Does this mean a big change on the parser side? what do you think?</div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height:21.3px;"></div><div style="line-height:21.3px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thank you!</div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div><img src="https://u2002410.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/open?upn=fPHCHxM8OEqkFI0LoY8YMuXDKRTx6ILsXcJMmyHEOCKoTIfmBG-2BB29EKJ66isdwzGloc7ZFX7-2BF4OLFKGhYR452GcWvMK0zfSjEY7yDYXwTU-2BqOF3eg0yWlwBqzUBGHwi6g1BOj7opXk2sLJPbrnwlBuFcyEcyjSnpyPqmtTNTT3mulfq22DLIXezmou8RS-2Fu8xZDmt9bQjdElFmd01-2F3yStFIKMb-2FJgynEvhIuAqv0-3D" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;border-width:0px !important;padding:0px !important;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline !important;"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline !important;">swift-evolution mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div> </div></body>
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