I also disagree for the same reasons that Gwynne and Brent mentioned: I find '\(...)' easy to read, fine to type, and consistent with other string escaping syntax.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > I find that typing \(var) is very disruptive to my typing flow. The more > I code in Swift, the more I like it, but every time I'm coding and then > have to hiccup while typing \ then ( causes me to be annoyed. I know, it's > minor, but it isn't a key combination that flows quickly. > > > > I would much rather have $() or perhaps ${} (like Groovy lang) or > perhaps @() to go along with other uses of @ throughout the language. > > Even though I'm used to Perl's and Ruby's interpolation syntaxes, I > immediately liked `\(…)`. It's parsimonious: Rather than taking a third > character (besides \ and ") to mean something special in a string literal, > it reuses one of the existing ones. There's no need to escape a character > you wouldn't otherwise have to touch, or to think of another character as > "magical" in a string. It fits nicely with the rest of the syntax, with `\` > indicating a special construct and then `()` delimiting an expression, just > as they do elsewhere in the language. It's an elegant solution to a problem > traditionally solved inelegantly. It's very Swifty in that way. > > > A shifted key, like $ or @, followed by another shifted key like (, > allows for a much faster flow and they are much closer to the home keys > than \ which is nearly as far from home keys as possible (and awkward). > > > I don't have any trouble typing it personally. If you find yourself > accidentally typing `\9` or `|(`, we could probably offer an error for the > former or warning for the latter with a fix-it. But if you're complaining > that it takes a tiny fraction of a second longer to type than `$(` would, > then honestly, I just can't bring myself to care. Swift optimizes for code > reading. If we wanted to optimize for code typing instead, we'd have a very > different style. > > -- > Brent Royal-Gordon > Architechies > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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