Precedent suggests that they should be named either drop/take, or possibly skip/take. But Swift chose drop/prefix already (we have dropFirst and dropLast already in the stdlib), which is why this proposal is following the same terminology. -Kevin On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, at 02:29 AM, William Shipley via swift-evolution wrote: > func drop(@noescape while predicate: (Self.Iterator.Element) throws > -> Bool) rethrows -> Self.SubSequence func prefix(@noescape while > predicate: (Self.Iterator.Element) throws -> Bool) rethrows -> > Self.SubSequence > > > > Now I may just be a simple country hyper-chicken, but so I don’t know > if there are other languages that inspired the names of these > functions, but it ruffles my feathers that we have the words “drop” > and “prefix” for two functions that are kind of symmetric, instead of > symmetric words like “drop” and “keep” or “prefix” and “suffix”. > > Not that I’m in love with those particular examples, I’m just saying > I’d like it if there were some symmetry in the words that suggested > the symmetry of the functions. But, again, maybe these are, like, some > standard terms that I just missed out on and everyone would hate it if > we didn’t use the standard name, like if we renamed “cos()” to > “adjacentOverHypotenuse()”. > > Ba-kawk, > -Wil > _________________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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