<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="">+1<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally this one wouldn’t bother me to require, but It seems the Swift way is to not require things that can be inferred by context so I’m ok with just allowing it.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 11, 2016, at 9:03 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch 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=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Currently, "infix" is not required/allowed on an operator function definition, but "prefix" and "postfix" are:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""> prefix operator ^^ {} // valid</div><div class=""> postfix operator ^^ {} // valid</div><div class=""> infix operator ^^ {} // valid</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> prefix func ^^(operand: Int) {} // valid</div><div class=""> postfix func ^^(operand: Int) {} // valid</div><div class=""> infix func ^^(lhs: Int, rhs: Int) {} // <b class="">error: </b>'infix' modifier is not required or allowed on func declarations</div><div class=""> func ^^(lhs: Int, rhs: Int) {} // valid</div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It seems like this was removed because it can be inferred from the number of arguments (<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/3ad9c58c18f0331444114e2eae3e772e702c326f" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/3ad9c58c18f0331444114e2eae3e772e702c326f</a>). But IMO the inconsistency from other operator function decls/defs is jarring.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How does everyone feel about reinstating the "infix" modifier on functoins? (It was removed before the open-source release and the advent of swift-evolution, so I thought it'd be worth a public review.)</div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Jacob<br class=""></div></div></div></div>
</div>
_______________________________________________<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></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>