on Thu Apr 07 2016, Erica Sadun <erica-AT-ericasadun.com> wrote:

>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 2:34 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> on Mon Apr 04 2016, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> My read on the API guidelines is that the mutating/non-mutating distinction 
>>> is
>>> made by verbs vs. nouns. The verb itself doesn't have to "suggest" or "feel"
>>> mutating, it just has to be clearly a verb. Thus, IMO, `form` is as good a 
>>> verb
>>> as any, although if we're going to return to bikeshedding I would suggest 
>>> that
>>> `do` is even shorter.
>> 
>> It is, but x.doUnion(y) doesn't make any plausible sense, at least not
>> to me.
>
> It's worth mentioning that there's still a fanbase for `union` and
> `unionInPlace`.

Noted.  I'm part of it.

-- 
Dave
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