<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Looks good so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Top-level functions:</div><div><br></div><div>#doSomething()</div><div>ModuleName#doSomething() // is it a problem to distinguish modules and classes here?</div><div><br></div><div>What about static/class functions? Any idea how to fit them into that scheme?</div><div><br></div><div>-Thorsten</div><div><br>Am 28.12.2015 um 16:05 schrieb T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Do things get any better if we combine the proposed changes and remove the bare case? Begin function reference with some symbol (# here but it doesn't matter), only use back tics to disambiguate keywords (which lines up with their current use) and remove the unadorned case to avoid ambiguity.<div><br></div><div><div>```swift&nbsp;</div><div>class Foo {</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>func doSomething() { }</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>func doSomething(value: Int) { }</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>func sub</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>let fn = Foo#doSomething // no longer allowed</div><div>let fn = Foo#doSomething() // okay</div><div>let fn2 = Foo#doSomething(_:) // okay</div><div><br></div><div>// and</div><div><br></div><div>let getRow = someMatrix#`subscript`(row:).get</div><div><br></div><div>```</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 27, 2015, at 12:27 AM, Frederick Kellison-Linn via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;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></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;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><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Given that<span>&nbsp;</span><font face="Menlo" style="font-size:11px">someView.insertSubview(_:at:)</font><span>&nbsp;</span>can be correctly parsed, I would strongly lean towards the no-backtick alternative mentioned at the end. I feel as though the backticks end up looking very cluttered (particularly when you get into the double-nested backticks), and it seems cleaner to be able to reference a method as it was declared rather than having to add extra syntax.</div><div><br></div><div>In reference to the issues noted with this approach:</div><div><br></div><div>IMO, there is already enough syntactic difference between getters/setters and normal methods to justify requiring a different syntax to reference them. For instance, the<span>&nbsp;</span><font face="Menlo">#</font>&nbsp;syntax could be used so that,<span>&nbsp;</span><font face="Menlo" style="font-size:11px">button.currentTitle.get</font><span>&nbsp;</span>would reference<span>&nbsp;</span><font face="Menlo" style="font-size:11px">Optional&lt;String&gt;.get</font>, and<span>&nbsp;</span><font face="Menlo" style="font-size:11px">button.currentTitle#get</font>&nbsp;would reference the getter. Or,&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px">button.`currentTitle.get`</span>&nbsp;could reference the getter (i.e. backticks are only required in cases that are ambiguous).</div><div><br></div><div>I also think it is reasonable to require that in the case of a method with no arguments such as&nbsp;<font face="Menlo" style="font-size:11px">set.removeAllElements</font><font>, the programmer be expected to know the difference between the expression with&nbsp;and without the trailing parenthesis. After all, that distinction already exists in the language, and would not disappear with this proposed addition. If a parallel syntax for referencing methods with no arguments is strongly desired, perhaps something such as&nbsp;</font><span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px">set.removeAllElements(:)</span>,&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px">set#removeAllElements()</span>, or similar could be used, though I think that the present system for referencing these methods is sufficient.</div><div><font><br></font></div><div>Are there other obvious reasons why this alternative wouldn’t work? I think it is the cleanest of the alternatives and avoids littering the code with backticks.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Not having the back-ticks means that you will need to use contextual type information to disambiguate the zero-parameter case from other cases. For example:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>class Foo {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                </span>func doSomething() { }</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                </span>func doSomething(value: Int) { }</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>}</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>let&nbsp;fn = Foo.doSomething // ambiguous</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>let fn2 = Foo.doSomething(_:) // okay</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>let fn3: (Foo) -&gt; () -&gt; Void = Foo.doSomething // okay</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>let fn3: (Foo) -&gt; (Int) -&gt; Void = Foo.doSomething // okay</div><div><br></div><div>My general complaint with the “drop the backticks” approach is that it doesn’t solve the whole problem. Sure, it solves 95% of the problem with a little less syntax, but now you need to invent yet another mechanism to handle the other cases (#set, contextual type disambiguation, etc)… which seems inconsistent to me.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>- Doug</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div class="h5"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;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><div><div>On Dec 26, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Here’s a proposal draft to allow one to name any function in Swift. In effect, it’s continuing the discussion of retrieving getters and setters as functions started by Michael Henson here:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/002168.html" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/002168.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>the proposal follows, and is available here as well:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span><a href="https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md</a></div><div><br></div><div>Comments appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="font-size:2.25em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.2;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0px!important">Generalized Naming for Any Function</h1><ul style="padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>Proposal:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">SE-NNNN</a></li><li>Author(s):&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/DougGregor" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Doug Gregor</a></li><li>Status:&nbsp;<strong>Awaiting Review</strong></li><li>Review manager: TBD</li></ul><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md#introduction" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle"></span></a>Introduction</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Swift includes support for first-class functions, such that any function (or method) can be placed into a value of function type. However, it is not possible to specifically name every function that is part of a Swift program---one cannot provide the argument labels when naming a function, nor are property and subscript getters and setters referenceable. This proposal introduces a general syntax that allows one to name anything that is a function within Swift in an extensible manner.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Swift-evolution thread: Michael Henson started a thread about the getter/setter issue&nbsp;<a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/002168.html" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here</a>, continued&nbsp;<a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151214/002203.html" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here</a>. See the&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md#alternatives-considered" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Alternatives considered</a>&nbsp;section for commentary on that discussion.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md#motivation" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle"></span></a>Motivation</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">It's fairly common in Swift for multiple functions or methods to have the same "base name", but be distinguished by parameter labels. For example,&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">UIView</code>&nbsp;has three methods with the same base name&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">insertSubview</code>:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">extension</span> UIView {
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(121,93,163)">insertSubview</span>(view: UIView, at <span>index</span>: <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">Int</span>)
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(121,93,163)">insertSubview</span>(view: UIView, aboveSubview <span>siblingSubview</span>: UIView)
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(121,93,163)">insertSubview</span>(view: UIView, belowSubview <span>siblingSubview</span>: UIView)
}</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">When calling these methods, the argument labels distinguish the different methods, e.g.,</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal">someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview(view, at: <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">3</span>)
someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview(view, aboveSubview: otherView)
someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview(view, belowSubview: otherView)</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">However, when referencing the function to create a function value, one cannot provide the labels:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// ambiguous: could be any of the three methods</span></pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In some cases, it is possible to use type annotations to disambiguate:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn: (UIView, <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">Int</span>) <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview    <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// ok: uses insertSubview(_:at:)</span>
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn: (UIView, UIView) <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// error: still ambiguous!</span></pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To resolve the latter case, one must fall back to creating a closure:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn: (UIView, UIView) <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> { view, otherView <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">in</span>
  button<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview(view, otherView)
}</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">which is painfully tedious. A similar workaround is required to produce a function value for a getter of a property, e.g.,</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">extension</span> UIButton {
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">var</span> currentTitle: <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">String</span>? { <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">...</span> }
}

<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">var</span> fn: () <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">-&gt;</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">String</span>? <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> { () <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">in</span>
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">return</span> button<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>currentTitle
}</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">One additional bit of motivation: Swift should probably get some way to ask for the Objective-C selector for a given method (rather than writing a string literal). The argument to such an operation would likely be a reference to a method, which would benefit from being able to name any method, including getters and setters.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md#proposed-solution" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle"></span></a>Proposed solution</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Swift currently has a back-tick escaping syntax that lets one use keywords for names, which would otherwise fail to parse. For example,</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(121,93,163)">`try`</span>() <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">-&gt;</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">Bool</span> { <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">...</span> }</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">declares a function named&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">try</code>, even though&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">try</code>&nbsp;is a keyword. I propose to extend the back-tick syntax to allow compound Swift names (e.g.,&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">insertSubview(_:aboveSubview:)</code>) and references to the accessors of properties (e.g., the getter for&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">currentTitle</code>). Specifically,</p><ul style="padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Compound names can be written entirely within the back-ticks, e.g.,</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`insertSubview(_:at:)`
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn1 <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`insertSubview(_:aboveSubview:)`</pre></div><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">The same syntax can also refer to initializers, e.g.,</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> buttonFactory <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> UIButton<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">init</span>(type:)`</pre></div></li><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Getters and setters can be written using dotted syntax within the back-ticks:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> specificTitle <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> button<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`currentTitle<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">get</span>` <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// has type () -&gt; String?</span>
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> otherTitle <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> UIButton<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`currentTitle<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">get</span>`  <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// has type (UIButton) -&gt; () -&gt; String?</span>
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> setTintColor <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> button<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`tintColor<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">set</span>`     <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// has type (UIColor!) -&gt; ()</span></pre></div><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">The same syntax works with subscript getters and setters as well, using the full name of the subscript:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">extension</span> Matrix {
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">subscript</span> (row row: <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">Int</span>) <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">-&gt;</span> [<span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">Double</span>] {
    <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">get</span> { <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">...</span> }
    <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">set</span> { <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">...</span> }
  }
}

<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> getRow <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someMatrix<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">subscript</span>(row:)<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">get</span>` <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// has type (Int) -&gt; () -&gt; [Double]</span>
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> setRow <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someMatrix<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">subscript</span>(row:)<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">set</span>` <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// has type (Int) -&gt; ([Double]) -&gt; ()</span></pre></div><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">If we introduce property behaviors into Swift, the back-tick syntax could also be used to refer to behaviors, e.g., accessing the&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">lazy</code>&nbsp;behavior of a property:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">self</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`myProperty<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">lazy</span>`<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>clear()</pre></div></li><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Base names that are meaningful keywords (<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">init</code>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">subscript</code>) can be escaped with a nested pair of back-ticks:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">extension</span> Font {
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(121,93,163)">`subscript`</span>() <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">-&gt;</span> Font {
    <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// return the subscript version of the given font</span>
  }
}

<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> getSubscript <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> font<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>``<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">subscript</span>`()` <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// has type () -&gt; Font</span></pre></div></li></ul><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The "produce the Objective-C selector for the given method" operation will be the subject of a separate proposal. However, here is one possibility that illustrations how it uses the proposed syntax here:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> getter: Selector <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> objc_selector(NSDictionary<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">subscript</span>(_:)<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">get</span>`) <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// produces objectForKeyedSubscript:</span>
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> setter: Selector <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> objc_selector(NSDictionary<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>`<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">subscript</span>(_:)<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">set</span>`) <span style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// produces setObject:forKeyedSubscript:</span></pre></div><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md#impact-on-existing-code" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle"></span></a>Impact on existing code</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This is a purely additive feature that has no impact on existing code. The syntactic space it uses is already present, and it merely extends the use of back-ticks from storing a single identifier to more complex names.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/generalized-naming/proposals/0000-generalized-naming.md#alternatives-considered" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle"></span></a>Alternatives considered</h2><ul style="padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-bottom:0px!important"><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Michael Henson&nbsp;<a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/002168.html" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">proposed</a>&nbsp;naming getters and setters using&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">#</code>&nbsp;syntax followed by&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">get</code>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">set</code>, e.g.,</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> specificTitle <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> button<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>currentTitle#<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">get</span></pre></div><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">The use of postfix&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">#</code>&nbsp;is a reasonable alternative here, and more lightweight than two back-ticks for the simple getter/setter case. The notion could be extended to allow argument labels for functions, discussed&nbsp;<a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151214/002210.html" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here</a>. The proposals in that discussion actually included type annotations as well, but the syntax seems cleaner---and more directly focused on&nbsp;<em>names</em>---without them, e.g.,:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview#(_:at:)</pre></div><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">which works. I didn't go with this syntax because (1) it breaks up Swift method names such as&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">insertSubview(_:at:)</code>with an&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">#</code>&nbsp;in the middle, and (2) while useful, this feature doesn't seem important enough to justify overloading&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">#</code>further.</p></li><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Joe Groff&nbsp;<a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151214/003008.html" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">notes</a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<em>lenses</em>&nbsp;are a better solution than manually retrieving getter/setter functions when the intent is to actually operate on the properties. That weakens the case this proposal makes for making getters/setters available as functions. However, it doesn't address the general naming issue or the desire to retrieve the Objective-C selector for a getter/setter.</p></li><li><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Can we drop the back-ticks? It's very tempting to want to drop the back-ticks entirely, because something like</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> fn <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> someView<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>insertSubview(_:at:)</pre></div><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">can be correctly parsed as a reference to&nbsp;<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">insertSubview(_:at:)</code>. However, it breaks down at the margins, e.g., with getter/setter references or no-argument functions:</p><div style="margin-bottom:16px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">extension</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">Optional</span> {
  <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(121,93,163)">get</span>() <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">-&gt;</span> T { <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">return</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">self</span><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">!</span> }
}

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