[Swift-devel] New syntax for appending to arrays

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jun 28 14:29:21 CDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:08 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
> $0,02 from me -- given that Swift has a C-like syntax, this syntax will surely confuse people??

"+=" is a bit confusing, but then I don't think it's more so than using
"+" as a string concatenation operator.

So please vote or propose an alternative:

0. a += 1;
1. a ++= 1;
2. a ++ 1;
3. a << 1;
4. a[] = 1;
5. a .= 1; (that would make more sense if "." meant concatenation in
swift).





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