If we're going to bikeshed again: how about "assign"?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:08 PM Taras Zakharko via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">replaceWith* is also my favourite here (same for *InPlace). Sure, it might be verbose, but the semantics is very clear and seems apply to a wide range of relevant situations. In the end, there are hundreds if not more messages in this (and related) threads and i am sure that you guys spent even more time in meetings talking about this. If I understand correctly, Swifts goal is clarity over laconicity. If finding sensible laconic terminology turns out to be surprisingly difficult, a more verbose one might be a better choice after all.<br>
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> On 07 Apr 2016, at 22:36, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> on Mon Apr 04 2016, Brent Royal-Gordon <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> Indeed, OED points out that modern usage is "chiefly military." Probably an argument against its usage here.<br>
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>> It seems to me that what you're sort of saying is "replaceWith", but<br>
>> that's kind of a mouthful.<br>
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> It's at least very explicit. We did consider that, and chose “form” as<br>
> a more reasonable convention. However, we weren't thinking of the<br>
> “from” problem. I prefer “replaceWith” over “become” for some reason I<br>
> can't identify.<br>
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>> A quick thesaurus check suggests that the only decent single-world<br>
>> alternative would be "substitute", but that sounds like a regex<br>
>> operation. I think this is a dead end.<br>
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> Dave<br>
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