[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0144: Allow Single Dollar Sign as a Valid Identifier

[Hooman Mehr]

I don’t think $ will be become available to be used as an operator if we remove its identifier use. 

> On Oct 14, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Daniel Duan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Agree with Robert here. I'd rather be able to use it as part of operators. Currently the character set for operators and identifier head are mutually exclusive. So this proposal will remove that possibility. This deserves some discussion.
> 
> Daniel Duan
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> On Oct 14, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Robert Widmann via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> As the author of the patch that introduced this and the patch that will come out of this discussion, I have no problems one way or the other.  Just bear in mind that if $ is an identifier head character then it cannot be used in operators - something I have a library with a vested interest in.
>> 
>> ~Robert Widmann
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