> On Jul 31, 2017, at 2:09 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > So I was thinking the other day (and by "the other day" I mean "It just > occurred to me") that Swift's custom operator declaration mechanism is pretty > sweet (it's become even sweeter ever since numeric precedence values were > replaced with purely relativistic precedence trees). There are currently only > two problems with them that grind my operator-declaring endeavors to a > painful halt: > 1. The fact that most punctuation characters on the keyboard (think - > ASCII) are reserved, so any custom operator either has to be a long sequence > of two or three non-reserved ASCII characters or have to include > difficult-to-type unicode punctuation characters. > 2. The fact that anything that passes as an identifier character (which > includes a surprisingly wide array of punctuation characters) is off the > table as well.
See the 3rd entry of: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md> -Chris
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