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> On May 10, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Erica Sadun <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On May 10, 2016, at 6:51 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On May 10, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Swift community, >>> >>> The review of "SE-0041: Updating Protocol Naming Conventions for >>> Conversions" begins now and runs through May 16. The proposal is available >>> here: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0041-conversion-protocol-conventions.md >> >> Here are comments from someone who preferred to stay anonymous. These are >> not my own: >> >> >> >> >> * What is your evaluation of the proposal? >> >> I rather agree with the comments mentioned in the proposal from the Standard >> Library design team, in that I agree with the basic intention of the >> proposal, but I’m not convinced about the proposed answer. Specifically: > > > We'd be happy to bikeshed again. > > I think fundamentally our take on this is: > > * We want there to be a standard that expresses the three > conversion/initialization styles. > * We feel the system is currently broken. And we want to have a coherent and > settled vision in place for 3, even imperfect. > * We're flexible about the naming but it should be (1) Swifty and (2) well > grounded in meaning. > > Let me turn the floor over to Matthew here. I agree with Erica here. There was a significant round of bike shedding that went into this proposal a few months ago, but there is no harm in continuing that exercise now that a broader audience is engaged. As many reviewers have agreed, the important thing is to settle on *something*. Several reviewers have mentioned Creatable as not feeling Swifty. FWIW, the history behind the name is that we wanted something that will work regardless of the mechanism. It should be a sensible name whether the requirement is an initializer or a factory method. I'm hoping we can reach a convention that most of us are happy with by the end of the review period. > > -- E > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
