[swift-evolution] Standard operator precedence

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Mon Feb 15 13:30:39 CST 2016


> On Feb 15, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but not enough to claim limited resources needed for pressing matters. It's not a feature anyone would clamor for, more a product of the foolish consistency hobgoblin. Rationale: it is possible in JavaScript (for instance) to evaluate true * true, but not in Swift.

A feature existing in another language isn’t sufficient rationale for including it in Swift.  It needs to solve a problem for Swift developers.

-Chris



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