[Swift-devel] New syntax for appending to arrays

Michael Wilde wilde at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jun 28 14:56:37 CDT 2011


I vote for 3

----- Original Message -----
> I vote for 0.
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Jonathan Monette wrote:
> 
> > 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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