<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">…<br>
</span>As a name, signum falls into the “term-of-art” category, so at least<br>
that part is in conformance to the guidelines. In specialized areas<br>
like this one, I generally defer to the domain experts, and IIRC our<br>
numerics people thought a function was more appropriate. In general,<br>
though, we were unable to come up with solid guidelines for the use of<br>
properties vs. functions. You can read more about this in the thread<br>
that starts here:<br>
<a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160125/007927.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/<wbr>pipermail/swift-evolution/<wbr>Week-of-Mon-20160125/007927.<wbr>html</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, I'll read that thread.</div><div>I am however noting that FloatingPoint.sign is a computed property.</div><div>Seems to me like the "term-of-art" category is a rather fussy and complicated/complicating concept.</div><div>/Jens</div><div> </div></div></div></div>