[swift-evolution] Thoughts on replacing \() with $() or some other symbol

[Brandon Knope]

Unfortunately I know nothing about international keyboards.

But surely someone could heat map their international keyboards?

I don't want to take this to ridiculous levels, but I hope I am making somewhat of a point here. Maybe not =/

Brandon

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 21, 2016, at 7:38 PM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:

>>> You know what *is* unusable though? Try finding the $ key on an international keyboard.
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> And that, for me, is motivation in a nutshell. Swift won't always be used on OS X, where it's easy to set up Keyboard prefs to substitute (dollar) with $. 
> 
> I did a search for "which symbol keys appear on most international keyboards" but didn't get very far. Surely this is something to bring into the discussion if it exists?
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> -- E
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