On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, at 03:53 PM, Michel Fortin via swift-evolution wrote: > Le 28 déc. 2015 à 17:27, Daniel Duan via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > .dropFirst() => .excludeFirst() > > > > What do y’all think? > > Following the new API guidelines, shouldn't the name be either > `droppingFirst` or `excludingFirst`? That would solve your problem, right? > Many things still need to be adapted to the new conventions. > > https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines.html#be-grammatical
That's not what the conventions say. They say non-mutating phrases should read as noun phrases when possible. But `droppingFirst` isn't a noun phrase. This means things like `index.successor()`. It also says that if there is no good noun phrase to use then imperative verbs are acceptable, which means it will stay as `dropFirst`. -Kevin Ballard _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
