On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, at 01:33 PM, Daniel Duan wrote: > For concrete types that conform to CollectionType: > > [2, 1, 3].removeFirst() // => 2 > [2, 1, 3].removingFirst() // => [1, 3] > > seems like what the “non-mutating counterpart” guideline is aiming for. As > another example, the guideline includes “stripNewlines()” and > “strippingNewlines()”. > > For SequenceType conforming types that aren’t CollectionTypes, they would be > stuck with “removingFirst()”, which, technically, is a noun phrase (again, > not my personal favorite). I don’t this result is against anything in the > guidelines.
It's technically not a noun phrase at all. I believe you're thinking of gerunds, where a verb with an -ing ending is used as a noun. But "removing" in "removingFirst()" is not being used as a noun; the method does not represent the act of removing, but instead it returns a new value constructed "by removing first". I believe this is called the Present Participle. -Kevin Ballard _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
