> On May 25, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Thorsten Seitz via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > > >> Am 25. Mai 2016 um 03:07 schrieb Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org>: >> >> >>>> On May 24, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon <br...@architechies.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I believe it was things like "+" and "-" for set union and subtraction, >>>> etc. >>> >>> >>> That, or &, |, and ^, by analogy with bitwise operators. It definitely came >>> up during the SetAlgebra discussions. >> >> Another thread I guess I didn’t follow closely enough. I think I agree with >> avoiding using unconventional operators for operations which already have >> conventional operators associated with them. Maybe someday it will be easy >> enough to type unicode operators that it might be reasonable to think about >> using them. > > > Yes, there is precedent in other languages: > Ceylon uses "&" for type intersection (any<>) and "|" for type union (one<>), > see http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.2/tour/types/. > TypeScript does the same (see > https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types.html). >
Some great minds have said a lot of good things about typescript... > -Thorsten > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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