<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="">I can’t speak for everyone else, but I’ve been using it as a stand-in for “whatever”. I think <font face="Menlo" class="">×</font> and <font face="Menlo" class="">x</font> are different enough (at least in Xcode’s default Menlo and, my current favorite, Fira Mono), but I don’t think <span style="font-family: Menlo;" class="">×</span> is anywhere of the normal keyboard layout. I know it wouldn’t be hard for Apple to have a custom keyboard layout with a bunch of math symbols on the alt layer, but I don’t know how to handle it for other editors.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s too bad, really… Not for <span style="font-family: Menlo;" class="">×</span> in particular, but abstract / math code in general would be a lot more readable if people had easy access the various operators and set notation symbols.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">- Dave Sweeris</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 1, 2016, at 17:31, Matt Whiteside via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Have people on this thread been suggesting the letter ‘x’ literally for the operator, or was that meant as a shortcut/standin for the unicode cross operator: ×<br class=""><br class="">?<br class=""><br class="">Or maybe they are so similar that neither would be a good keyword…<br class=""><br class="">Matt<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 1, 2016, at 12:43, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 1, 2016, at 8:42 AM, John Randolph via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 29, 2016, at 2:40 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">am I the only one who get creeps because of that "x" in the declaration? I<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I really don’t like the x as an operator either, because I use x for so many other things in my code.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I agree that it wouldn’t be acceptable to take x as a keyword.<br class=""><br class="">-Chris<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="">_______________________________________________<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></div><br class=""></body></html>