<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Isn't the rule only for the case where you can have a mutating and non-mutating variant?<br><br></div><div>The 'reduce()' at its core take an array of element and reduce it to single element (could be of a different type) as such it cannot ever be mutating (if one really want it, one could reduce an array to the same array but it is not the goal of the function). For this one it sound to me nearly like asking to rename 'max()' to 'maxed()', 'count' to 'counted' or implement a 'summed()' instead of a 'sum()' for [Int].</div><div><br></div><div>Dany</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>Le 16 juin 2016 à 15:51, Patrick Pijnappel via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Due to considerably support on <a href="http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution&article=20783">this thread</a>, a draft proposal to revisit the core functional method exceptions to the -ed/-ing rule.</div><div><br></div>Online version: <a href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md">https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md</a><div><br></div><div><h1 style="font-size:2.25em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.2;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';margin-top:0px!important">Apply -ed/-ing rule to core functional methods</h1><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><li style="">Proposal: <a href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/NNNN-functional-methods-ed-ing.md" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none">SE-NNNN</a></li><li style="">Author: <a href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none">Patrick Pijnappel</a></li><li style="">Status: <span style="">Awaiting review</span></li><li style="">Review manager: TBD</li></ul><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-introduction" class="" href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md#introduction" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Introduction</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">The Swift API Guidelines standardizes non-mutating method forms on verbs ending in -ed/-ing (or nouns). However, a few non-mutating forms have been kept as "Terms of Art": <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">map</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">flatMap</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">filter</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">reduce</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">dropFirst</code> and <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">dropLast</code>. This proposal proposes to bring these in line with all other non-mutating forms (e.g. <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">filter => filtered</code>).</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Swift-evolution threads: <a href="http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution&article=20783" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none">Source</a></p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-motivation" class="" href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md#motivation" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Motivation</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">These method have been kept to preserve the terms of art. Generally, this can have significant benefits:</p><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><li style="">Anyone familiar with the term will immediately understand it, and use their assumptions about how it works.</li><li style="">Users learning the term from Swift can use their knowledge when encountering it elsewhere.</li><li style="">Experienced users will be able to use the mental pattern matching they've built-up for quickly recognizing common programming patterns.</li></ul><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">However, basically all of the benefits of using a term of art still apply to the modified forms: – For recognition, the modified forms are still very close to the traditional terms of art. So both coming to and from Swift you'll be able to use your knowledge pretty much unaffected. </p><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><li style="">If the user looks for e.g. <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">filter</code> they are pretty much guaranteed to quickly find the correct form, be it through code-completion, google or a fix-it.</li><li style="">There isn't really any violation of assumptions that might cause problems in this case.</li><li style="">Any mental pattern matching will likely transfer quickly due to the minimal difference.</li></ul><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-proposed-solution" class="" href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md#proposed-solution" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Proposed solution</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">The proposed solution modifies the method verbs to their -ed/-ing forms (preferring the former). </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">It removes the last clear exceptions to the -ed/-ing rule from the standard library, which previously were exactly the opposite of what one would expect based on the API guidelines (and the rest of the language).</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">It also aids users in learning to pattern match on the -ed/-ing rule and internalizing the API guidelines, since now all methods are named this way – instead of the most commonly used methods defying the normal pattern.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-detailed-design" class="" href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md#detailed-design" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Detailed design</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">The change would rename the following method families:</p><pre style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">map => mapped
flatMap => flatMapped
filter => filtered
reduce => reduced
dropFirst => droppingFirst
dropLast => droppingLast
</code></pre><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-impact-on-existing-code" class="" href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md#impact-on-existing-code" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Impact on existing code</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">The Swift migrator and fix-its would be provided for the change. </p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-alternatives-considered" class="" href="https://github.com/PatrickPijnappel/swift-evolution/blob/functional-methods-ed-ing/proposals/XXXX-functional-methods-ed-ing.md#alternatives-considered" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Alternatives considered</h2><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><li style="">Alternatively -ing suffixes could be used for <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">map</code>/<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">flatMap</code>/<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">filter</code>/<code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">reduce</code>. However, these are normally reserved for when -ed doesn't really work (e.g. droppedFirst).</li></ul></div></div>
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