Hi all,
This is probably very minor, but I’m not sure the protocol name
“BitwiseOperations” fits the Swift API Design Guidelines. Here’s what the
guidelines have to say about protocol names:
Protocols that describe what something is should read as nouns (e.g.
Collection).
Protocols that describe a capability should be named using the suffixes able,
ible, or ing (e.g. Equatable, ProgressReporting).
>From these two, BitwiseOperations appears to be (attempting) to follow the
>first rule, yet “BitwiseOperations” doesn’t really describe what the type is,
>but rather that it can do bitwise operations. The documentation itself even
>describes the protocol as “a type that supports standard bitwise arithmetic
>operators."
I propose we rename it to “BitwiseOperable”, or something similar. Again, a
small change, but if this were to ever happen, I think Swift 3 is the time.
Riley Testut
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