> On Jan 8, 2018, at 5:08 PM, Karl Wagner <razie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 9. Jan 2018, at 01:29, Ben Cohen via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> >> There exists in the standard library a type `DictionaryLiteral` that >> deserves naming re-consideration before we declare ABI Stability, because >> it’s confusingly misnamed, being neither a Dictionary (it doesn’t provide >> key-based lookup of values) nor a Literal. >> >> Instead, it’s just an immutable collection of key-value pairs you can create >> _from_ a literal. >> >> I’m canvassing for opinions on what it ought to be called. Some suggestions >> so far: >> >> - `AssociationCollection`: Following the term of art from some other >> languages. Slightly obscure-sounding to developers not already familiar. >> Also “association” and “associative” are confusingly similar, which brings >> back the is-this-a-dictionary problem. >> - `KeyValueCollection`: Problematic because key-value comes up in a totally >> different context in Cocoa. >> - `PairCollection`: “Pair” is kinda nondescript. >> - Do nothing. It’s not so bad. >> >> The old name can live on indefinitely via a typealias (which has no ABI >> consequences, so could be retired at a later date once everyone has had >> plenty of time to address the deprecation warnings). Removing it as not >> carrying its weight (and instead using `[(Key,Value)]`, which is basically >> what it’s a wrapper for) is probably off the table for source stability >> reasons. >> >> Any further thoughts welcome. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> swift-evolution@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > > Since it is a generic type, could it not be nested inside of the appropriate > Dictionary<Key, Value> type? That would make 2 or 3 more reasonable. > > Also, what about Dictionary<Key, Value>.KeyValuePairs? > > - Karl
It’s really not related to the Dictionary type. This isn’t part of Dictionary’s implementation leaking out, like DictionaryIndex or DictionaryIterator were. It’s a separate independently (marginally-) useful type. _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
