I assume that Number being renamed Numeric implies SignedNumber being renamed SignedNumeric?<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 09:06 Ben Rimmington 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"><<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0104-improved-integers.md" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0104-improved-integers.md</a>><br class="gmail_msg">
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> On 24 Feb 2017, at 02:05, Ben Cohen wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Regarding the “Number” protocol: it was felt this is likely to cause confusion with NSNumber, given the NS-prefix-dropping versions of other Foundation types indicate a value-typed concrete type equivalent, which this won’t be. The recommendation is to use “Numeric" instead.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Does the `Error` protocol cause confusion with the `NSError` class?<br class="gmail_msg">
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I think `Number` is better than `Numeric`, because it is consistent with `SignedNumber`.<br class="gmail_msg">
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