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

[jcr at mac.com]

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:50 PM, 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}

So, == gets replaced with six characters, plus a special case of “=“?

-1 from me.  Don’t like this idea at all.

-jcr