What's the best practice for naming Swift files that add extensions to existing objects?

Question

It\'s possible to add extensions to existing Swift object types using extensions, as described in the language specification.

As a result, it\'s possible to create exten

Answer 1

Most examples I have seen mimic the Objective-C approach. The example extension above would be:

String+UTF8Data.swift

The advantages are that the naming convention makes it easy to understand that it is an extension, and which Class is being extended.

The problem with using Extensions.swift or even StringExtensions.swift is that it's not possible to infer the purpose of the file by its name without looking at its contents.

Using xxxable.swift approach as used by Java works okay for protocols or extensions that only define methods. But again, the example above defines an attribute so that UTF8Dataable.swift doesn't make much grammatical sense.