<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Radosław Pietruszewski <<a href="mailto:radexpl@gmail.com" class="">radexpl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">But don’t you think any relative advantage of “require” is overshadowed by the potential for confusion since “require” means something completely different in *a lot* of other languages?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>A valid concern. I’m glad I don’t have to be the one making the call on this. ;-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My gut feeling is that the two uses are *so* different that it might not be a big issue for anybody. I would only worry about confusion when there is a subtle difference in how a keyword or function is used. An assert() call that is still active in release builds would surprise a lot of people. A very different use for a common word like 'require’ might not.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—CK</div></div><div><br class=""><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="">
<div class="">— Radek</div>
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Jan 2016, at 22:56, Charles Kissinger 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=""><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="">‘Precondition’ is not particularly bad jargon since it is a standard dictionary word that is used with a similar meaning in areas outside of computer science. ‘Require’ probably has an advantage with students and non-native English speakers by virtue of being a much more commonly used and understood word.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>