<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="">It's to support the ones that are not too hard to type. É is a single key on my keyboard.<div class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 15 janv. 2016 à 18:39:14, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 15, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Jordan Rose <<a href="mailto:jordan_rose@apple.com" class="">jordan_rose@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi, Amir. What benefit does this feature have for a Swift programmer? In my mind, it makes it harder to reason about what something does, because there may now be multiple names for the same variable.<br class=""><br class="">Jordan<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">What’s the point of supporting unicode characters in identifiers if almost all of them are too hard to type?<br class=""><br class="">With this approach, you can use standard text to type them and have them converted to unicode every once in a while (e.g., on a commit).<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 14, 2016, at 15:34, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">In particular, allow the programmer to use text instead of unicode when convenient.<br class=""><br class="">For example:<br class=""><br class="">unicodealias alpha = α<br class=""><br class="">let alpha = 5.0<br class=""><br class="">print("α=\(α)”)<br class=""><br class="">Every once in a while, the programmer could request that the IDE/editor transform the text names to their unicode counterparts as determined by unicode aliases throughout the source.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>