<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Brandon,<br class=""><div><font color="#0f61c8" class=""><br class=""></font>Thank you for the good question! We humans have been writing and reading software for a long time now. There are some words and keywords which stand out form the rest to mean something **well know** and one of them is acronyms. It is a habit and it works quite great in Cocoa in Objective-C, that is why I would suggest to preserve it for the future generations to come. Have a good day!<br class=""><font color="#0f61c8" class=""><br class=""></font>Pavel.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 19, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Brandon Knope <<a href="mailto:bknope@me.com" class="">bknope@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Do you have a particular reason? I don't think because it is a certain way in Objective-C means it must be that same way in Swift. <br class=""><br class="">Brandon </blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>