I meant to say that it sounds like a good idea to leave the ’NS’ prefix on 
types that were auto-translated, and remove it from those that have been 
rewritten by hand for swift.

-Matt

> On May 16, 2016, at 21:24, Matt Whiteside <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a good idea.
> 
> -Matt
> 
>> On May 10, 2016, at 03:43, Geordie Jay via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[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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