This has been a very long and complex thread, but have some of these not-technically-mathy word pairs that have nice verb forms been considered:
union -> combine / combining intersection -> intersect / intersecting symmetricDifference -> split / splitting Example: var allowedUsers = Set<User>() allowedUsers.combine(standardUsers) allowedUsers.combine(superUsers) var users = allUsers users.intersect(allowedUsers) let users = allUsers.intersecting(allowedUsers) l8r Sean > On Apr 4, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > >> Indeed, OED points out that modern usage is "chiefly military." Probably an >> argument against its usage here. > > It seems to me that what you're sort of saying is "replaceWith", but that's > kind of a mouthful. A quick thesaurus check suggests that the only decent > single-world alternative would be "substitute", but that sounds like a regex > operation. I think this is a dead end. > > -- > Brent Royal-Gordon > Architechies > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
