OK I’ve incorporated those small things and submitted it for review. We’ve had 
an initial discussion, incorporated all the feedback, so I think it’s met the 
bar for a PR 👍

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/394

Karl

> On 29 Jun 2016, at 20:20, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Stephen Canon <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Stephen Canon via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:10 PM, Matthew Johnson <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My criticism of the 'toNearestOrGreatest' still stands though.  I think 
>>> this name is misleading given the stated semantics.  The name indicates 
>>> "greater value" not "greater magnitude" which are opposites in the case of 
>>> negative numbers.
>> 
>> Yup, I agree.  I think I originally suggested `toNearestTiesAway`.  I’m not 
>> tied to that name specifically, but we should be clear that ties go away 
>> from zero, not up.
>> 
>> Agreed; `toNearestOrAwayFromZero` is the most accurate and consistent 
>> description.
> 
> Worth noting that since this is the defaulted behavior, we can get away with 
> a wordy description.
> 
> This is really picking nits, but the most common behavior would be best as 
> the first enum case, no? Maybe go roughly from most-value-preserving to 
> least-value-preserving, like so:
> 
> `enum RoundingRule { case toNearestOrAwayFromZero, toNearestOrEven, up, down, 
> towardZero }`
> 
>  
> 
> – Steve

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