> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
Yes, we got a wad of technical corrections from an Apple linguist that have yet to be applied to the guidelines document. That was one of them. Sent from my moss-covered three-handled family gradunza _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
