[Swift-devel] New syntax for appending to arrays

[David Kelly]

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> 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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