<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I like "transfer" but I think this would be mostly helpful to people familiar with manual ref. counting in Obj-C.</div><div class="">It's probably just as confusing to others and the visual similarity could be confusing as well (like with `Unmanaged`).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But I also wouldn't be opposed to these if they were selected...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Dec 2015, at 06:56, Félix Cloutier via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">There's still the "release" issue (std::unique_ptr::release versus -[NSObject release]), but "transfer" seems like a good word to me. What about "transferByRetaining" and "transferWithoutRetaining"?</div><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Félix</span></div><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 20 déc. 2015 à 00:01:22, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Floating an idea here—not sure if it’s even in the right ballpark, and I’m certainly not tied to the specific wording, but what about something along the lines of:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.transferByReleasing()</div><div class="">.transferWithoutReleasing() // or perhaps just .transfer()</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or the slightly-more-verbose:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.transferObjectByReleasingReference()</div><div class="">.transferObjectWithoutReleasingReference() // or .transferObject()</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nevin</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">- Janosch</div>
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