<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="">On Jan 22, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">How do you handle naming non-mutating versions of these operations? Conjugating other irregular verbs also imposes a barrier on developers whose first language is not English.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Swift could use “after” as a prefix, or something similar.</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><font face="Menlo" class="">array.sort()</font></div><div><font face="Menlo" class="">array.afterSort()</font></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I was tempted to say “afterSorting()” but that has the same problems mentioned above.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Jeff Kelley</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:SlaunchaMan@gmail.com" class="">SlaunchaMan@gmail.com</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/SlaunchaMan" class="">@SlaunchaMan</a> | <a href="http://jeffkelley.org" class="">jeffkelley.org</a></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div></body></html>