[swift-evolution] Proposal: x == 2 should not be a valid statement

[Radosław Pietruszewski]

I definitely don’t like the idea of = meaning two very different things, whether or not it’s unambiguous to the compiler.

Why break decades-long programming convention for this?

— Radek

> On 12 Feb 2016, at 00:50, Jessy Catterwaul via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> What do you propose as an alternative operator for testing equivalence?
> 
> =
> 
> http://catterwaul.com/equality-operator/
> 
> Jonathan Tang’s brings this up: 
> {x == 2}
> 
> You’d need to use the return keyword. Oh well; I think it reads better.
> {return x = 2}
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