[swift-evolution] [Returned for revision] SE-0161: Smart KeyPaths: Better Key-Value Coding for Swift

Douglas Gregor dgregor at apple.com
Wed Apr 5 19:00:32 CDT 2017


> On Apr 5, 2017, at 4:55 PM, Colin Barrett <colin at springsandstruts.com> wrote:
> 
> Is the choice of backslash up for review? I think another operator,

We talked through basically everything on the keyboard, and there really aren’t other options that don’t stomp on existing behavior.

> perhaps backtick (`), would work better.

Backtick (`) is already taken for escaping identifiers, e.g., 

	var `func` = { /* some code */ }

	- Doug


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