<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="">Jacob Bandes-Storch suggested:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Consolas" class="">synchronously(execute work: …)</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So maybe that will conform to the API naming guideline? Or would the verb have to be in the base name of the func?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or perhaps:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Consolas" class="">synchronously(dispatch work: …)</font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Consolas" class="">asynchronously(dispatch work: …)</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 11, 2016, at 9:32 AM, James Dempsey 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=""><div class="">The method names</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>synchronously()</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>asynchronously() </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">are both adverbs, not noun phrases or verb phrases.</div><div class="">These methods have side effects, so each name should have a verb in it to make it a verb phrase.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;">Since these are the methods where you actually dispatch a block into a queue</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;">dispatchSynchronously()</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;">dispatchAsynchronously()</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;">would include the verb in the name of the methods.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>