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

[Félix Cloutier]

It's to support the ones that are not too hard to type. É is a single key on my keyboard.

Félix

> Le 15 janv. 2016 à 18:39:14, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
> 
> 
>> 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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