I like them camelCase. 

> On May 18, 2016, at 4:58 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 18, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Krystof Vasa <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Not to mention @NSApplicationMain, @NSManaged, ...
>> 
>> I'd personally keep it camelCase.
> 
> Those are sourced external to Swift.
> 
>>> On May 18, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just some context:
>>> 
>>> "We have a few conjoined keywords already (typealias, associatedtype, 
>>> fallthrough).  In the discussion about these terms, we decided that these 
>>> read best when all lowercase, because they are treated as atomic concepts 
>>> by programmers"
>>> 
>>> and
>>> 
>>> "On it being a conjoined word, we agreed that the language is currently 
>>> inconsistent (we have typealias, fallthrough, but also didSet/willSet and 
>>> @warn_unused_result) and that we should clean it up.  Conjoined feels like 
>>> the right direction to go for this case.  We didn’t discuss it but IMO, 
>>> didSet should get lowercased as well."
>>> 
>>> -- E
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 18, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Sean Heber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> +1 on not getting rid of willSet and didSet for sure!
>>>> 
>>>> As for naming, it doesn’t bother me much either way, but I think lowercase 
>>>> makes sense with the direction everything else is going.
>>>> 
>>>> l8r
>>>> Sean
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 18, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Michael Peternell via swift-evolution 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Erica,
>>>>> 
>>>>> "didset" and "willset" are outliers in the general rule that when 
>>>>> combining multiple words into an identifier, that you should use 
>>>>> camelCase. which rule is more important? I'd like to introduce a third 
>>>>> rule: don't fix it if it isn't broken, or more mildly: if in doubt, keep 
>>>>> it the way it is. or another one: embrace precedent.. "@IBOutlet" is also 
>>>>> not all-lowercase, should it be changed too? I'd say no, because in objc 
>>>>> it is called "IBOutlet" as well. Also, for my Apple Mail client, "didset" 
>>>>> and "willset" are marked as typos, but "didSet" and "willSet" is okay :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> => I vote for "didSet" and "willSet".
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think we should be more careful when trying to argue with 
>>>>> "consistency". It sounds objective, when in reality it's often very 
>>>>> subjective, because Immanuel Kant's imperative is ambiguous ;) there are 
>>>>> multiple ways to be consistent. If you are saying that something is 
>>>>> inconsistent, you either assert a specific rule of consistency (like 
>>>>> "keywords are always lowercase"), or you must argue that there is no 
>>>>> general/sane rule under which the individual parts of the system are 
>>>>> consistent.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And for all the others who want to abolish didSet and willSet completely:
>>>>> NO WAY! they are both useful and I even used them for real code. For 
>>>>> example, from code in my bachelors thesis (it's about polygons):
>>>>> 
>>>>> public var points: Array<CGPoint> = [] {
>>>>>    didSet {
>>>>>        _area = nil
>>>>>        _centroid = nil
>>>>>    }
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> I want to cache the _area and _centroid of a polygon, because I'm going 
>>>>> to use it many many times more often than I change points. I would have 
>>>>> to rewrite that code to something like
>>>>> 
>>>>> private var _points: Array<CGPoint> = []
>>>>> public var points {
>>>>>    get {
>>>>>        return _points
>>>>>    }
>>>>>    set {
>>>>>        _area = nil
>>>>>        _centroid = nil
>>>>>        _points = newValue
>>>>>    }
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's not better, and it probably breaks the COW-optimization of the 
>>>>> underlying array. (And don't tell me that my design is bad because I use 
>>>>> "didSet", I really don't think so.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Michael
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am 18.05.2016 um 17:09 schrieb Erica Sadun via swift-evolution 
>>>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> didSet and willSet remain outliers in the general rule of conjoined 
>>>>>> lowercase keywords. Is there any support for bringing these outliers 
>>>>>> into the fold?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- E, going through her "ttd notes" this morning
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