> On Jul 7, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Anton Zhilin via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> An important thing to consider is if we really want to break standard library 
> precedence hierarchy.
> If we don't, then the proposal loses significance immediately.
> If we do, then we should start discussion of specific changes right after 
> this one.

I think we'll need to anticipate a migration story for this regardless, since 
we're already constrained on remaining time for breaking changes to Swift 3. If 
push comes to shove, we could plausibly stage this in after 3.0 by mapping our 
existing numeric precedences to the corresponding named precedence groups in 
order to provide compatibility between the two models. We can also deprecate 
unwanted precedence relationships in the standard library so that they raise 
warnings before removing them after the compatibility window expires.

-Joe

> I'm fine with NilCoalescingPrecedence, because Coalescing is a noun in this 
> case. For example, we talk about "nil coalescing" operator.
> 
> Situation with namespacing is more intricate. I don't mind Precedence 
> suffixes very much (better make keywords shorter), but it would be great if 
> we came up with an elegant solution for dropping them.
> One idea: add Precedence suffix automatically: 'precedence Additive', 
> 'before: Additive', BUT 'Swift.AdditivePrecedence'.
> 
> 2016-07-07 19:28 GMT+03:00 Dmitri Gribenko via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:27 AM, John McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:23 AM, Dmitri Gribenko via swift-evolution
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Proposal link:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0077-operator-precedence.md
> >
> > Dave, Max and I discussed SE-0077 and reviewed the names of precedence
> > groups.
> > Here's our recommendation.
> >
> > In general, we think some names don't read well and have some ambiguities,
> > for
> > example, "LogicalAndPrecedence" (looks like a conjunction),
> > "AdditivePrecedence" ("additive" is an adjective that modifies
> > "precedence"),
> > "RangePrecedence" ("range" is not an adjective, stands out).
> >
> > We think that two directions would be fruitful:
> >
> > 1.  If the names of precedence groups will be in the same namespace as
> > types,
> >     then we recommend pushing the names of precedence groups into a
> > "namespace",
> >     for example "Precedence.Assignment".
> >
> > We don't have any language features that would allow this.
> 
> 'precedencegroup' that is being proposed is a new language feature, we
> can choose to use any syntax we like with it.
> 
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