> On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > > on Mon Apr 11 2016, Stephen Canon <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > >> Joe’s isn’t saying that “Indexes” is more common, rather that it’s regular >> (i.e. >> follows the usual declension rule for plurals); there’s tradeoffs each way, >> but >> using the regular plural might make it more familiar for some non-native >> speakers/readers. > > Indexes also has the disadvantage of being a verb as well as a plural noun.
That thought did cross my mind, but I think the potential for verb/noun confusion seems pretty well handled by context. As a verb, "index" is most commonly transitive, so I'd expect 'foo.indexes' to be a property whose value produces indexes, and 'foo.indexes(...)', if it existed, to be some kind of predicate method. -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
