on Tue Jun 21 2016, Kenny Wyland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to the list and I just searched through the archives as best I > could to see if someone else had already brought this up, but I didn't find > anything. Forgive me if this horse has been beaten. > > I find that typing \(var) is very disruptive to my typing flow. The more I > code in Swift, the more I like it, but every time I'm coding and then have > to hiccup while typing \ then ( causes me to be annoyed. I know, it's > minor, but it isn't a key combination that flows quickly. > > I would much rather have $() or perhaps ${} (like Groovy lang) or perhaps > @() to go along with other uses of @ throughout the language. > > A shifted key, like $ or @, followed by another shifted key like (, allows > for a much faster flow and they are much closer to the home keys than \ > which is nearly as far from home keys as possible (and awkward).
I'm forced to agree that \ is quite awkward for something that may be used so pervasively, and $ would likely meet more peoples' expectations. -- Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
