> On Jul 4, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So Swift 3 users have already migrated to this “better” name.
>>
>> I agree that initialize(to:) is consistent with the language we use
>> for assigning values. But grammatically, I think initialize(with:)
>> also makes perfect sense and is just as common.
>
> “With” is a weak preposition with many possible interpretations, so we'd
> like to avoid it. If I used “with” where “to” would have worked, I
> regret it.
That looks like a +1 from DaveA.
So, my only objection is that I’m trying to establish a convention where
“from:” reads from memory at a pointer and “to:” writes to memory at a pointer.
Here “to” is backward because the object of the preposition is not being
modified.
-Andy
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