[swift-evolution] Overloading assignment operator

[Don Wills]

Thanks to all who replied.  I apologize that my responses were disjoint - my spam checker delayed a couple of the messages until this morning.

To those who suggested literal convertibles, I believe Stephen is correct in that it is insufficient to accomplish the semantics that I want with the syntax I had hoped for.  It is about more than just initialization.  I'll probably just use ":=" as the assignment operator.  Not optimal, but it works.

Don  

> On Dec 6, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Stephen Celis <stephen.celis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think that his number assignment (via `<~`) depends on the current state of `amount`, and that using FloatLiteralConvertible does not provide enough information at the call site (since the current value is not available in the initializer).