Swift should avoid abbreviations in method names and keywords

Originator:david.w.hart
Number:rdar://17192148 Date Originated:05-Jun-2014 09:27 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:Swift seed 1
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:Always
 
In the WWDC session Building Modern Frameworks we are encouraged to continue to be fairly verbose in our naming conventions in Swift, and I think that's a good thing.

But on the other side, Swift seems to favour abbreviations, which I don't like. For example, for a language that gets rid of the baggage of C, println sounds fairly bad. printLine is only 2 extra characters and sounds much better. Similarly, the func keyword could be function, it's only 4 extra characters and code completion is here to help us.

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