> On May 18, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > >> On May 18, 2016, at 3:53 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> >>> didSet and willSet remain outliers in the general rule of conjoined >>> lowercase keywords. Is there any support for bringing these outliers into >>> the fold? >> >> I don't think we shouldn't touch these until we know what accessors on >> property behaviors are going to look like. We could very well change these >> now and then change them back in the next version; that kind of bouncing >> back and forth is maddening for users. Better leave them alone for now and >> change them later if we decide to, than change them in Swift 3 and then have >> a high probability of changing them back in Swift 4. > > I generally agree, but is that an option? Changing `didSet` to `didset` is a > breaking change.
In practice, we can accept both spellings for a long time at no harm to anyone. The first question to answer is “what is the right thing”. We can talk about how to phase it in separately. -Chris _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
