<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">This is a sugar request, but if we are rearranging these things anyway, can we *please* add the ‘≤’, ‘≥’, and ‘≠’ operators to comparable. I know they would do the same thing as ‘<=‘, ‘>=‘, and ‘!=‘, but they can’t really be used for anything else without being confusing (because they literally have that meaning in mathematics), and they make my code so much more readable.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is vastly increasing API surface area for every user of Swift for literally no functionality. Why isn't it sufficient that Swift allows you to do this for yourself without restriction?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jon<span class=""><br><div><br></div><div> <br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 13, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Ben Cohen via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-219275219863727398Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Online copy here:</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="https://github.com/airspeedswift/swift-evolution/blob/fa007138a54895e94d22e053122ca24ffa0b2eeb/proposals/NNNN-ComparisonReform.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>airspeedswift/swift-evolution/<wbr>blob/<wbr>fa007138a54895e94d22e053122ca2<wbr>4ffa0b2eeb/proposals/NNNN-<wbr>ComparisonReform.md</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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