<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Matthew Judge via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
> Multiple prepositions before the first argument?<br>
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</div></div>Yes, before and including the first argument label. For example (from Jacob's response):<br>
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comparePositionInDecodeOrderWithPosition(of cursor: AVSampleCursor) -> ComparisonResult<br>
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</span>Jacob suggests spelling it:<br>
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comparePositionInDecodeOrder(withPositionOf cursor: AVSampleCursor) -> ComparisonResult<br>
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I agree that Jacob's spelling is better, but not enough better to justify additional guidelines about prepositions.<br>
<div class=""><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know enough about linguistics to express this properly, but I suspect there's something to be said about the "verb phrase" being the part that comes before the paren. To me, "comparePositionInDecodeOrderWithPosition(of:)" is confusing because there is a noun "Position" immediately preceding the parenthesis, which might indicate that the argument should be a position, but in reality the most meaningful part of the method name is the verb, "compare".</div></div></div></div>