<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 May 20, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Xiaodi Wu &lt;<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" class="">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" 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;" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><span class=""><br class="">&gt; On May 20, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Chris Lattner &lt;<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com" class="">clattner@apple.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt; On May 20, 2016, at 7:26 AM, Matthew Johnson &lt;<a href="mailto:matthew@anandabits.com" class="">matthew@anandabits.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br class="">&gt;&gt;&gt; (For instance, a perhaps controversial opinion: I think `dynamicType` is properly capitalized for the syntactic slot it's in. That's not to say I think we should *keep* `dynamicType`, but simply that `foo.dynamicType` is more appropriate than `foo.dynamictype` would be.)<br class="">&gt;&gt;<br class="">&gt;&gt; +1.&nbsp; 'foo.dynamictype' seems strange to me.<br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt; foo.dynamicType is broken for other reasons.&nbsp; I see x.dynamicType as being a named operator (like sizeof) and not a property.&nbsp; For example, we don’t want .dynamicType to show up in code completion on every value in the universe ("4.dynamicType”, really?).<br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt; That argues that it should be spelled as dynamicType(x), and ideally being a standard library feature instead of a keyword.<br class=""><br class=""></span>That makes sense.&nbsp; It never crossed my mind until now, but given that `sizeof` is a standard library feature why isn’t it camel case `sizeOf`?&nbsp; Is this a case of “term of the art”?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See:&nbsp;<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/15830/" class="">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/15830/</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks. &nbsp;That’s what I figured. &nbsp;:)</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" 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;" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">&nbsp;</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class=""><div class="h5"><br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt; -Chris<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>