<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2016, at 1:31 AM, Jo Albright via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">As my obsession grows with custom operators. I have come across wanting to use small words or 1-2 alphabetical characters as custom operators. I noticed that “as” and “is” are character based operators and figured it wouldn’t hurt to propose the allowance of character based custom operators.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are my reasons for allowing them:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. easier to read “within” vs “><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">*</span><“ or “|<span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">*</span>|” </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>Check out Replace Logical Operators (&&, ||, etc) with words like "and" and “or":<div class=""><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is very small win here of “x foo y” over "x.foo(y)”?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>