Huge +1 from me, but a character can't be valid for both function/variable names and operators because it'd break something in the compiler. Or at least I think that’s what I remember reading here.
That doesn’t strictly rule out custom keywords, but those are probably part of the AFAIK-still-out-of-scope macro discussion. - Dave Sweeris > On Mar 24, 2016, at 9:24 AM, David Knothe via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > Well I would love to be able to create and use my own keywords / alphanumeric > operators. > Depending on the type of code you are writing, these may be more or less > helpful. The same is true for the 'step' keyword - maybe most people won't > ever use it - but I think there should certainly be a possiblity, be it a > concrete keyword built into the language or the possibility to create my own > ones. _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
