[swift-evolution] [Idea] Custom keywords for operators.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

I thought limiting the keywords to the ones explicitly defined for this purpose would solve the problem of overcomplicating the parser.
Just to be clear: I do *not* propose replacing punctuation-based operators with identifier-based ones, the ideas was purely additive.
But I do see the problem now. I can't think of a good way at the moment of resolving the recursive problem with the parser if it needs to resolve the imports first.
Perhaps If I come up with a deterministic and easy parsing mechanism that would not depend on pre-arsing the entire file at once, this would not be such a bit show-stopper.
And again, I wouldn't even bring this up if swift didn't already rely on keyword operators, which means that there can not be any semantical reason to disallow this.

> On Aug 1, 2017, at 4:29 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot.org> wrote:
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>> On Jul 31, 2017, at 2:09 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> So I was thinking the other day (and by "the other day" I mean "It just occurred to me") that Swift's custom operator declaration mechanism is pretty sweet (it's become even sweeter ever since numeric precedence values were replaced with purely relativistic precedence trees). There are currently only two problems with them that grind my operator-declaring endeavors to a painful halt:
>> 	1. The fact that most punctuation characters on the keyboard (think - ASCII) are reserved, so any custom operator either has to be a long sequence of two or three non-reserved ASCII characters or have to include difficult-to-type unicode punctuation characters.
>> 	2. The fact that anything that passes as an identifier character (which includes a surprisingly wide array of punctuation characters) is off the table as well.
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> See the 3rd entry of:
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md>
> 
> -Chris
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