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

[Amir Michail]

> On Jan 15, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

What’s the point of supporting unicode characters in identifiers if almost all of them are too hard to type?

With this approach, you can use standard text to type them and have them converted to unicode every once in a while (e.g., on a commit).

> 
>> 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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