SE-0045 Add scan, prefix(while:), drop(while:), and unfold to the stdlib

func drop(@noescape while predicate: (Self.Iterator.Element) throws -> Bool) rethrows -> Self.SubSequence
  func prefix(@noescape while predicate: (Self.Iterator.Element) throws -> Bool) rethrows -> Self.SubSequence

Now I may just be a simple country hyper-chicken, but so I don’t know if there are other languages that inspired the names of these functions, but it ruffles my feathers that we have the words “drop” and “prefix” for two functions that are kind of symmetric, instead of symmetric words like “drop” and “keep” or “prefix” and “suffix”.

Not that I’m in love with those particular examples, I’m just saying I’d like it if there were some symmetry in the words that suggested the symmetry of the functions. But, again, maybe these are, like, some standard terms that I just missed out on and everyone would hate it if we didn’t use the standard name, like if we renamed “cos()” to “adjacentOverHypotenuse()”.

Ba-kawk,
-Wil

Precedent suggests that they should be named either drop/take, or
possibly skip/take. But Swift chose drop/prefix already (we have
dropFirst and dropLast already in the stdlib), which is why this
proposal is following the same terminology.

-Kevin

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On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, at 02:29 AM, William Shipley via swift-evolution wrote:

  func drop(@noescape while predicate: (Self.Iterator.Element) throws
  -> Bool) rethrows -> Self.SubSequence func prefix(@noescape while
  predicate: (Self.Iterator.Element) throws -> Bool) rethrows ->
  Self.SubSequence

Now I may just be a simple country hyper-chicken, but so I don’t know
if there are other languages that inspired the names of these
functions, but it ruffles my feathers that we have the words “drop”
and “prefix” for two functions that are kind of symmetric, instead of
symmetric words like “drop” and “keep” or “prefix” and “suffix”.

Not that I’m in love with those particular examples, I’m just saying
I’d like it if there were some symmetry in the words that suggested
the symmetry of the functions. But, again, maybe these are, like, some
standard terms that I just missed out on and everyone would hate it if
we didn’t use the standard name, like if we renamed “cos()” to
“adjacentOverHypotenuse()”.

Ba-kawk,
-Wil
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