<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><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 class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22.6.2016, at 1.10, Daniel Resnick 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=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I also disagree for the same reasons that Gwynne and Brent mentioned: I find '\(...)' easy to read, fine to type, and consistent with other string escaping syntax.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">+1</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m using Finnish keyboard, for \ the key combination is opt-shift-7, then () are shift-8 and shift-9, so very easy. Actually, using @ (opt-2) or $ (opt-4) would be harder, because one would have to switch hands, using opt with right hand and then using left hand for shift for () or opt-shift for {}.</div><div class="">The code is written once, but read maybe thousands of times, so readability is immensely more important.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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