<div dir="ltr">Your email did break out of the thread into its own one.<div>(at least in Google Mail)<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/15/15 14:05, Tommy van der Vorst wrote:<br>
> I *do* see negative effects of removing it: ! is part of virtually<br>
> all programming languages currently in use, any decent programmer is<br>
> accustomed to it and read it like 'not' in their head anyway.<br>
> Removing would definitely confuse newcomers to the language.<br>
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I agree with that.<br>
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However, should `!` be removed, I'd suggest `~` — which already means<br>
negation for integers, but is currently not defined on booleans.<br>
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Rainer Brockerhoff <<a href="mailto:rainer@brockerhoff.net">rainer@brockerhoff.net</a>><br>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil<br>
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise<br>
In their own business even sages err."<br>
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