on Mon Apr 04 2016, Brent Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Indeed, OED points out that modern usage is "chiefly military." Probably an >> argument against its usage here. > > It seems to me that what you're sort of saying is "replaceWith", but > that's kind of a mouthful. It's at least very explicit. We did consider that, and chose “form” as a more reasonable convention. However, we weren't thinking of the “from” problem. I prefer “replaceWith” over “become” for some reason I can't identify. > A quick thesaurus check suggests that the only decent single-world > alternative would be "substitute", but that sounds like a regex > operation. I think this is a dead end. -- Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
