[swift-evolution] Beyond Typewriter-Styled Code in Swift, Adoption of Symbols

[Saagar Jha]

Saagar Jha

> On Aug 30, 2017, at 16:42, Robert Bennett via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> But countless editors have popped up since vi(m) first appeared. If anything, this is a testament to the fact that old, “crusty” technology can remain relevant forever, even as new technologies offering better ergonomics enter the market.
> 
> Also, could someone tell me how ImageLiteral and similar types are represented in the file? What appears when you open it in TextEdit? This same sort of thing — presumably some ascii delimiters signifying specially formatted data (I don’t have access to a computer) — could enable the desired matrix, sqrt, etc functionality in Xcode. (Unless Xcode is doing preprocessing of those types before compiling.)
> 

It’ll show up as #imageLiteral([file name here]). Xcode will detect these automatically and fill it in with an image.

> On Aug 30, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Ryan Walklin via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> 
>> I think we've possibly moved beyond the scope of swift-evolution. Skim-reading the OP's manifesto demonstrates nothing relevant to general purpose programming languages or Swift in particular.
>> 
>> Ryan
>> 
>> August 31, 2017 8:40 AM, "John Pratt via swift-evolution" <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:%22John%20Pratt%20via%20swift-evolution%22%20<swift-evolution at swift.org>>> wrote:
>> Well, here is one question: 100 years from now do you think all computers
>> should use vi?
>> At what point would people ever have anything that ever slightly resembles
>> something advanced?
>> Do you ever want anything that
>> slightly resembles science fiction, ever, in society? Or should everyone be
>> using vi for the rest of civilization?
>>> On Aug 30, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Eagle Offshore <eagleoffshore at me.com <mailto:eagleoffshore at me.com>> wrote:
>>> While I am in theory a fan of literate programming and enjoy integrated programming environments when they are integrated into a complete literate system (Smalltalk browsers, LISP environments, HyperCard, etc...)...In practice if its just a language and not a complete holistic system, and I can't command the entire thing with God's own editor (I speak of vi - because its "there" and it is the only editor guaranteed to be "there" on any system I am ever likely to try to access), I'm not gonna use it.
>>> Just my $0.02
>>>> On Aug 28, 2017, at 7:57 PM, John Pratt via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>>>> I sent a postal envelope to the Swift team with an article I wrote, arguing that
>>>> symbols and graphics would push the programming language forward.
>>>> Wouldn’t it be nice to have an actual multiplication matrix broken out into code,
>>>> instead of typing, “matrix()”? It seems to me Swift has the chance to do that.
>>>> Also: why does "<==" still reside in code as "less than or equal to” when
>>>> there is a unicode equivalent that looks neat?
>>>> Why can’t the square of x have a superscript of 2 instead of having “pow(x,2)?
>>>> I think this would make programming much easier to deal with.
>>>> I expound on this issue in my article:
>>>> http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf <http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf>
>>>> Thank you for reading.
>>>> -John
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