<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 also need upside-down question mark and exclamation point: ¡ ¿<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">¿If the right side up versions are operators, why not the upside-down versions? I am using them because they are easy to type and my grammar calls for both ? and !, which are already in use by swift. Using ¡ and ¿ is an easy translation when typing in from research papers (which use ! and ?). I have quite a few projects dependent on these, and I don’t think they would ever be confused with identifiers… so why ban them?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Jon</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro via swift-evolution <
<a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" class="">swift-evolution at swift.org</a>> wrote:
><i class=""> Quick poll as a sanity check on a possible alternative for operators:
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</i>><i class=""> If we admitted [:Sm:] and [:So:] and the traditional ASCII operator
</i>><i class=""> characters, would that cover the things that people currently feel
</i>><i class=""> passionate about? That would almost certainly be compliant with UAX31 once
</i>><i class=""> it settles, and I *think* it covers all of the cases people have raised
</i>><i class=""> here.
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</i>><i class=""> Useful links if you want to check:
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</i>><i class=""> [:Sm:] Symbol, Math
</i>><i class=""> <<a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Sm/list.htm" class="">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Sm/list.htm</a>>
</i>><i class="">
</i>><i class=""> [:So:] Symbol, Other
</i>><i class=""> <<a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/So/list.htm" class="">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/So/list.htm</a>>
</i>><i class="">
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