I think that my original proposal was clearly discarded (twenty mails ago) so to preserve order please consider open other threads to continue the discussions started here.<br><br>I really enjoyed sharing thoughts with you guys :) Thanks to everyone for participate.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 08:29 Andrey Tarantsov via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">+1 for clean-up:</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">• "and" instead of && </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">• "or" instead of ||</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">• "not" instead of !</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">• if expressions instead of ?!</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>+1 from me as well. Should be a separate proposal, though?</div><div><br></div><div>I understand the concern that Chris expressed before:</div><div><br></div><div>> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We’ve briefly considered this in the past. However, this doesn’t align well with the design of swift, which partitions infix and prefix operators into their own namespace (composed of operator characters) and normal identifiers (composed of “identifier characters”). You can see the grammar for this in the Swift Programming Language Reference.</span></div><div><br></div><div>...but I don't see why the language cannot be extended to allow defining and using identifiers as operators.</div><div><br></div><div>A.</div><div><br></div></div>
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