> What is your evaluation of the proposal?
I am strongly opposed to the changes to the names of functions implementing set 
operations, as it is going to introduce a lot of confusion. While I'm a fairly 
rigid about consistency, I do think that there are acceptable exceptions to any 
set of rules/guidelines. This represents one of those cases. For example, 
changing union() to formUnion() for the sake of aligning compliance to API name 
guidelines simply doesn't make sense to me.

> Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to 
> Swift?
No.

> Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?
No.

> If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do 
> you feel that this proposal compares to those?
There are plenty of other languages that have API naming guidelines, such as 
C#, Ruby, and Python. However, they all demonstrate enough lenience to 
accommodate cases such as this. For example, 
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.3.0/libdoc/set/rdoc/Set.html.

> How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or 
> an in-depth study?

In-depth.

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