The use "as"? Sent from my moss-covered three-handled family gradunza
> On Jul 5, 2016, at 6:48 AM, Andrew Trick <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> 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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