> On Jul 3, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am still curious why the SE-0104 FixedWidthInteger protocol uses member > functions like “.xor” rather than operators for bitwise manipulation.
The global operators are implemented in terms of those methods in the protocol. -Chris > > Nevin > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > on Fri Jul 01 2016, Riley Testut <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > 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. > > BitwiseOperations should really be retired after > https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0104-improved-integers.md > > <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0104-improved-integers.md> > is implemented, and its uses replaced by FixedWidthInteger. > > -- > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution> > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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