[swift-evolution] Proposal: Make it easier to use unicode identifiers in Swift.

[Jordan Rose]

Hi, Amir. What benefit does this feature have for a Swift programmer? In my mind, it makes it harder to reason about what something does, because there may now be multiple names for the same variable.

Jordan

> On Jan 14, 2016, at 15:34, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> In particular, allow the programmer to use text instead of unicode when convenient.
> 
> For example:
> 
> unicodealias alpha = α
> 
> let alpha = 5.0
> 
> print("α=\(α)”)
> 
> Every once in a while, the programmer could request that the IDE/editor transform the text names to their unicode counterparts as determined by unicode aliases throughout the source.
> 
> 
> 
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