[swift-evolution] Proposal: Contiguous Variables (A.K.A. Fixed Sized Array Type)

Matt Whiteside mwhiteside.dev at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 19:31:39 CST 2016


Have people on this thread been suggesting the letter ‘x’ literally for the operator, or was that meant as a shortcut/standin for the unicode cross operator: ×

?

Or maybe they are so similar that neither would be a good keyword…

Matt


> On Feb 1, 2016, at 12:43, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 1, 2016, at 8:42 AM, John Randolph via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 29, 2016, at 2:40 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> am I the only one who get creeps because of that "x" in the declaration? I
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>> I really don’t like the x as an operator either, because I use x for so many other things in my code. 
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> I agree that it wouldn’t be acceptable to take x as a keyword.
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> -Chris
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