> On Jun 22, 2016, at 9:09 AM, Matthew Johnson <matt...@anandabits.com> wrote: >> On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:59 AM, John McCall <rjmcc...@apple.com >> <mailto:rjmcc...@apple.com>> wrote: >> >> >>> On Jun 22, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution >>> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote: >>> >>>> Rationalizing base conversion protocol names. I personally don't have the >>>> heart to try to re-address the "LiteralConvertible" protocol naming thing >>>> again but this would be the last chance to do anything about getting this >>>> issue addressed. >>> Given the vast amount of bike shedding that has already happened around >>> this topic, I don’t think there is a solution that everyone will be happy >>> with. It is also unclear (to me at least) what solution might be >>> acceptable to the core team. >> >> To be clear, I don't care about the name. If you want to rename >> IntegerLiteralConvertible to IntegerLiteral or whatever, I won't drag the >> conversation into the muck again. :) It's the design of the requirements >> that I'm pretty opposed to revisiting. > > This is orthogonal to the discussion that happened in your thread, definitely > no discussion of any changes to the requirements. :)
Thank goodness. :) > We are discussing this proposal: > https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0041-conversion-protocol-conventions.md > > <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0041-conversion-protocol-conventions.md> > and specifically the use of the `Convertible` suffix for both the > `*LiteralConvertible` protocols and the `Custom(Debug)StringConvertible` > protocols where the conversion runs in opposite directions. > > The core team decision was: > > "The feedback on the proposal was generally positive about the idea of > renaming these protocols, but the specific names in the proposal are not well > received, and there is no apparent confluence in the community on better > names. The core team prefers discussion to continue -- if/when there is a > strong proposal for a better naming approach, we can reconsider renaming > these." Yeah, I think we'd love to see better names; there's just no consensus yet. John.
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