Le 28 déc. 2015 à 19:02, Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution 
<[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, at 03:53 PM, Michel Fortin via swift-evolution wrote:
>> 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`.

Really? The convention says: "When a mutating method is described by a verb, 
name its non-mutating counterpart according to the “ed/ing” rule, e.g. the 
non-mutating versions of x.sort() and x.append(y) are x.sorted() and 
x.appending(y)."

Are you telling me that because no one bothered *yet* writing a mutating 
version of this method the "ing" rule does not apply? That it will apply only 
the day someone will write mutating method called `dropFirst`? This 
interpretation of the guidelines does not make much sense.

-- 
Michel Fortin
https://michelf.ca

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