[swift-evolution] Allowing Characters for use as Custom Operators

[Chris Lattner]

> On Jan 7, 2016, at 1:31 AM, Jo Albright via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> As my obsession grows with custom operators. I have come across wanting to use small words or 1-2 alphabetical characters as custom operators. I noticed that “as” and “is” are character based operators and figured it wouldn’t hurt to propose the allowance of character based custom operators.
> 
> Here are my reasons for allowing them:
> 
> 1. easier to read “within” vs “>*<“ or “|*|” 

Check out Replace Logical Operators (&&, ||, etc) with words like "and" and “or":
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md

There is very small win here of “x foo y” over "x.foo(y)”?

-Chris

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