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 _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
