[swift-evolution] Location of ! in Boolean negation expressions

[Xiaodi Wu]

Changes to Swift syntax aren't really in scope for the Swift 4 Stage 1
evolution process. See this list:
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160725/025676.html


On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Darren Mo via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Consider code like
>
> guard !parameters.contains(where: { !validValueRange.contains($0) }) else …
>
> Oftentimes I need to write negation expressions like this. The location of
> the exclamation marks really bugs me when writing and reading this code.
> The natural English ordering would be something like
>
> “Make sure parameters does not contain an element such that
> validValueRange does not contain this element.”
>
> But the programming-language-imposed ordering is
>
> “Make sure NOT parameters contains an element such that NOT
> validValueRange contains this element.”
>
> See how much harder the programming language version is to understand?
> Most of the time I write the positive version first because it comes out so
> naturally, and then I add the exclamation marks afterwards. It really
> burdens my mind every time I need to write code like this. Let’s come up
> with a solution to address this!
>
> Here’s my zero-thought solution:
>
> guard parameters.!contains(where: { validValueRange.!contains($0) }) else …
>
> I’d love to hear alternate solutions and whether other people are having
> this problem too!
>
> Darren
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