<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><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">We discussed this a looooong while back and decided that we wanted the ‘_’ to emphasize that there is an argument there. The difference between “</span><font face="Menlo" class="" style="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;">foo(:bar:)</font><span 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">” and “</span><font face="Menlo" class="" style="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;">foo(bar:)</font><span 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">” is barely visible.</span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div>That is true, but I think it is very uncommon to have such a set of methods — and afaics, it would violate the guidelines for method names.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But speaking of additional characters that might be useful:</div><div class="">What about the parameter types? When they are needed to identify the exact function, it would be nice if they could be included as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">foo(bar:(Int))</div><div class="">(that's why I wanted to avoid the parenthesis in the first place…)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tino</div></body></html>