[swift-evolution] A path forward on rationalizing unicode identifiers and operators

[Matt Whiteside]

> On Oct 1, 2017, at 16:50, Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 1, 2017, at 4:30 PM, Matt Whiteside via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> That said, it’s unclear to me that superscript T is clearly an operator, any more than would be superscript H (Hermitian), superscript 2, superscript 3, etc. But at any rate, this would be discussion for the future 
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>> Allowing superscripted characters to be used as operators seems like it would take the proposal down a rabbit hole. 
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> Don’t worry: IIRC, that operator isn’t accepted by Swift 4, so it wouldn’t be the topic of the first rounds of the proposal.
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> I was simply trying to get across the idea of “design for utility”, and the utility of superscript T is really about transposing matrices.  That proposal would be a follow-on after the already-accepted set of stuff is rationalized :)
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> -Chris

Ok, thanks for clarifying that.

-Matt