This sounds like a good idea.

-Matt

> On May 10, 2016, at 03:43, Geordie Jay via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am 10.05.2016 um 12:26 schrieb Haravikk via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> 
>> 
>>> What is your evaluation of the proposal?
>> Personally I’m a -1; I’d prefer to see the NS prefix remain on types that 
>> have been translated automatically with minimal human interaction, in favour 
>> of dropping the prefix for types that have received more attention to 
>> establish a Swift-ier style, but migrating these into a new module instead.
> 
> I strongly agree with keeping NS prefix on API that has not been 
> ‘Swiftified'. First step, achieve functional equivalence with Darwin APIs. 
> Second step, systematically improve Foundation to the point where it feels 
> like this fundamental part of the language is as easy to use and idiomatic as 
> the standard library itself. At that point I’d be very much for dropping the 
> prefixes.
> 
>> 
>>> Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to 
>>> Swift?
>> Since it’s a basic API that most developers will be interacting with then 
>> yes, even though the change is fairly minor, it definitely bears 
>> consideration.
>> 
>>> Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?
>> Yes and no. Prefixing types with NS definitely isn’t very Swift-y, but at 
>> the same time this is why I’d like to keep the current convention for 
>> existing (unchanged) types, as it makes it much clearer that these are 
>> things that weren’t originally designed for Swift and thus won’t behave 
>> quite as you might expect.
> 
> Completely agree
> 
>> 
>>> If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how 
>>> do you feel that this proposal compares to those?
>> I’ve worked in languages where libraries had different styles of 
>> name-spacing, and while it was annoying to have a mixture, I think it was 
>> fine, especially for libraries that are older, as the prefix name-spacing 
>> style makes it absolutely clear that this is an older API.
>> 
> 
> Yes, we should be clear this is an older API, also to add motivation on 
> introducing a more modern one (even if at first it just wraps Foundation with 
> a more Swift-like API)
> 
>>> How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or 
>>> an in-depth study?
>> 
>> Quick read of the proposal, kept an eye on the discussion leading up to it 
>> though.
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