lol we might as well use a lozenge as the separator let fsa:[3, 2 <> Int] = [3, 2 <> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Some languages like Pollen even go the unicode route and use an actual lozenge let fsa:[3, 2 ◊ Int] = [3, 2 ◊ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] this character is actually very easy to type (≤ 3 keystrokes) in both OSX and Linux, the only two platforms Swift is targeting currently. It’s also a standard character present in every monospace font. On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Robert Bennett <rltbenn...@icloud.com> wrote: > I’ll throw my syntax suggestion into the mix: backslashed brackets for the > braces, a colon for the separator. > > let fsa: \[3: Int\] = \[3: 1, 2, 3\] > > Or maybe go the string interpolation route and only backslash the first > bracket. > > let fsa: \[3: Int] = \[3: 1, 2, 3] > > I think that looks pretty clean. For one-dimensional arrays, you could > even omit the size and infer the type. > > let fsa = \[1, 2, 3] // Of type \[3: Int] > > And I agree with Taylor that the separator chosen should have no > standalone use in the language — colon, semicolon, pound sign, etc are OK, > but operators shouldn’t be used. > > On Jul 23, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Taylor Swift via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > Using the *multiplication operator* as a *separator* character seems like > an extraordinarily bad idea. > > let fsa:[2 * Int] = [2 * 5, 3] // [10, 3] ??? > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:59 AM, David Sweeris <daveswee...@mac.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 23, 2017, at 08:45, Taylor Swift via swift-evolution < >> swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution < >> swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> >>> I wanted to read the proposal, but skipped it as soon as I’ve seen the >>> syntax. From the esthetic point of you the proposed syntax is really ugly. >>> Again I’m not speaking against the feature in general, nor against any of >>> the technical benefits fixed-size array will provide to us. I simply >>> dislike the syntax, which in my opinion does not fit to Swift. >>> >> >> What about a double colon? >> >> let fsa:[5, 2::Int] = [5, 2::[::0, 0]: 5, [::5, 1]: 6, default: -1] >> >> >> I thought we'd mostly settled on "let fsa: [count * Type]" last time this >> came up. >> >> - Dave Sweeris >> > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > >
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