You could use dispatch(), and name the synchronous method something else?
synchronize() or its shortened form sync(), which is a real word, or maybe
wait(). (However, there was a beauty in the yin-yang of async/sync in the
original API. I would call them terms of art, like map, filter, reduce, etc)
class DispatchQueue : DispatchObject {
func synchronize(work: @convention(block) () -> Void)
func dispatch(
group: DispatchGroup? = nil,
qos: DispatchQoS = .unspecified,
flags: DispatchWorkItemFlags = [],
work: @convention(block) () -> Void)
}
queue.dispatch(group: group) {
print("Hello World")
}
queue.synchronize {
print("Hello World")
}
> On 12 May 2016, at 12:50 AM, James Dempsey via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
>> So maybe that will conform to the API naming guideline? Or would the verb
>> have to be in the base name of the func?
>
>
> It seems from the guidelines that the intent is for the verb to be in the
> base name of the func, especially since there is another set of guidelines
> for naming function parameters.
>
> In general the other methods in the proposal are verbs (perform(), notify(),
> wait(), cancel(), etc.)
>
> At least for me, not including a verb makes the API read like the sentence
> “The dog quickly”. This wasn’t so bad in the C API, because you could read
> the word ‘dispatch’ as the verb.
>
>
> Looking at the current GDC API, it does seem like dispatching synchronously
> is the rare and special case.
>
> Could there be just a single dispatch() method, with async as a flag with a
> default value of true?
>
> It might be a little ugly because most of the other parameters of the
> proposed asynchronously() method would not apply in the sync case.
>
> James
>
>
>
>> On May 11, 2016, at 7:14 AM, Ricardo Parada <rpar...@mac.com
>> <mailto:rpar...@mac.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Jacob Bandes-Storch suggested:
>>
>> synchronously(execute work: …)
>>
>> So maybe that will conform to the API naming guideline? Or would the verb
>> have to be in the base name of the func?
>>
>> Or perhaps:
>>
>> synchronously(dispatch work: …)
>> asynchronously(dispatch work: …)
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 11, 2016, at 9:32 AM, James Dempsey via swift-evolution
>>> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The method names
>>>
>>> synchronously()
>>> asynchronously()
>>>
>>> are both adverbs, not noun phrases or verb phrases.
>>> These methods have side effects, so each name should have a verb in it to
>>> make it a verb phrase.
>>>
>>>
>>> Since these are the methods where you actually dispatch a block into a queue
>>>
>>> dispatchSynchronously()
>>> dispatchAsynchronously()
>>>
>>> would include the verb in the name of the methods.
>>>
>>
>
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