<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=""><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=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can I tell, at a call site, whether `respond(data: someData)` is responding with someData, or responding to someData?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That is, can I tell whether someData is the response, or instead is something from the request that the receiver will use to compute the response?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I see `respondWith(someData)` or `respondWith(data: someData)` or `respondWithData(someData)`, it's clear to me that someData is the response, while a hypothetical call `respondTo(someData)` would tell me that someData is the input to the response-computing algorithm.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><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="">I’d like to reiterate that my preference for cases like these would be:</div><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=""><br class=""></div><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=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>respond(withData data: Data)</div><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=""><br class=""></div><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="">This way the action (function name) is still simplified to respond, but the sentence structure remains for clarity, which I still think is the best of both worlds.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>That seems very weird.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’d prefer</div><div><br class=""></div><div> respondWith(data: Data)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>to “with” in the label.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>(But honestly it seems like an edge case for “with” here to have some meaning aside from just being a separator. Unless there’s a reliable heuristic to differentiate, `respond(data data: Data)` isn’t bad.)</div></body></html>