[Swift-devel] New syntax for appending to arrays

Jonathan Monette jonmon at utexas.edu
Tue Jun 28 14:33:10 CDT 2011


I vote for 3.

On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> 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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