On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-users < swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
> … > As a name, signum falls into the “term-of-art” category, so at least > that part is in conformance to the guidelines. In specialized areas > like this one, I generally defer to the domain experts, and IIRC our > numerics people thought a function was more appropriate. In general, > though, we were unable to come up with solid guidelines for the use of > properties vs. functions. You can read more about this in the thread > that starts here: > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/ > Week-of-Mon-20160125/007927.html > > Thanks, I'll read that thread. I am however noting that FloatingPoint.sign is a computed property. Seems to me like the "term-of-art" category is a rather fussy and complicated/complicating concept. /Jens
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