<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=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 19, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Taylor Swift 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 dir="ltr" class="">What about `<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">value:</span>`?<br class=""><br class=""><span class="gmail-im">`<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">ptr.initialize(value: value)</span>`<br class=""></span><span class="gmail-im">`<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">ptr.initialize(</span></span><span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class=""><span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">value</span></span>: value, count: 13)</span>`<br class=""></span><span class="gmail-im">`<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">ptr.initialize(as: UInt16.self, </span></span><span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class=""><span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">at: 0, value</span></span>: value, count: 13)</span>`</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Doesn't read as a sentence. Consider how "initialize to 3" sounds different from "initialize value 3".</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Personally, I'd go with:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ptr.initialize(to: value)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ptr.initialize(to: value, repeatCount: 3)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>(Or just `repeat`/`repeating` if you don't feel like you need the word "count" to disambiguate.)</div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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