[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Breaking precedence

[Xiaodi Wu]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Anton Zhilin <antonyzhilin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-08-02 19:08 GMT+03:00 Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com>:
>
>> That's an excellent point, actually. Would there be downsides not yet
>> considered?
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:03 Félix Cloutier <felixcca at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> These expressions mix two types of logic that have different
>>> implications. For instance, `a * 16` and `a << 4` are "mostly equivalent",
>>> except that `a * 16` will crash on overflow. In these cases, I find that
>>> grouping provides some visual insulation that groups off the somewhat
>>> subtle differences.
>>>
>>> Félix
>>>
>>
> So it at least makes sense to create a proposal about this:
>
> RangeFormation < Addition < Multiplication
> RangeFormation < BitwiseOr < BitwiseAnd < BitwiseShift
>
> Pretty much everyone says that moving Ternary below Assignment would be a
> regression.
> I feel like a bit more discussion is needed on this:
>
> Another concern is NilCoalescing, which can be thought to be semantically
>> similar to Ternary. And at the same time it looks like || and &&, which
>> would bring it between LogicalConjunction and Comparison.
>> Also, do Casting and RangeFormation stand where they should?
>
>
> Someone said that this is actually not what was planned -- sure, it may
> need a separate proposal and a separate thread, but I think it's OK to use
> this one for now.
>

Anton, since this list is high-volume, people may skip entire conversations
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