Chris: "Also, it is worth saying that any source breaking change still has to
have an
ultra-compelling reason to be worth considering. Despite having a framework to
support some source breaking changes, we still want to minimize them where
ever possible."
Since it seems to be open season on introducing a few, highly focused
breaking changes, let me throw this one out there.
Pitch: Renaming CharacterSet to UnicodeScalarSet
In Swift, String is defined as "a Unicode string value." and a "CharacterSet"
represents a set of Unicode-compliant characters.
A CharacterSet's initializers are:
init()
init<S>(S)
init(arrayLiteral: UnicodeScalar...)
init(bitmapRepresentation: Data)
init(charactersIn: ClosedRange<UnicodeScalar>)
init(charactersIn: String)
init(charactersIn: Range<UnicodeScalar>)
init?(contentsOfFile: String)
Why not rename `CharacterSet` to `UnicodeScalarSe`t, and update the initializers
to reflect they're being initialized from the unicode scalars in strings and
ranges?
I think the few places where the word `character` is left mentioned (in
convenience
properties) can be better named from `punctuationCharacters` to `punctuation`,
`controlCharacters` to `controlAndFormat`, etc.
-- E
_______________________________________________
swift-evolution mailing list
swift-evolution@swift.org
https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
