[Swift-devel] New syntax for appending to arrays

[Ketan Maheshwari]

3. or 1 >> a (following the UNIX append-like syntax "echo 1" >> a.txt)

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM, David Kelly <davidkelly999 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:
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>> 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??
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>> "+=" is a bit confusing, but then I don't think it's more so than using
>> "+" as a string concatenation operator.
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>> So please vote or propose an alternative:
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>> 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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