[Swift-devel] New syntax for appending to arrays

[Yadu Nand]

Hi Mihael,

> There have been some schools of thought in language design that said
> that there should be one and only one way to do a certain thing.
I planned on implementing both methods, += operator as well as append()
so that once its done, it'd be easier to decide which is better.
Should I drop implementation for append() style ? I'm ok with that.

I'd like to point out one issue that came up between a discussion with
Justin today. I am using the earlier idea of the append being an assign
with the array subscript being the thread prefix.
Meaning  array["key"] += 10  is [1]converted to  array["key"]["!"] = 10 by
the parser.
There is still the possibility that the user may inadvertently use the string
"!" as subscript and create weird situations. So instead of "!" we could use
a string say "_SWIFT_AUTO_INCREMENT" . This being something used
internally.

[1] Well not converted exactly, but the kml generated is the same.
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Thanks and Regards,
Yadu Nand B