on Mon May 02 2016, David Sweeris <davesweeris-AT-mac.com> wrote: > On May 2, 2016, at 5:58 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > On May 2, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > How does one distinguish between calls to a static prefix operator > and a > static postfix operator with the same name? > > Ah, that's a tricky one that I don't have an immediate answer to, > so > I'm > definitely open to creative thoughts here. > > One possibility: just use “qualified operator” notation. > > lhs T.+= rhs > > T.++x > x T.++ > > I’m not sure if this is exactly right, but it seems close. I think that > something like this is probably the best way to go, since it composes > properly in arbitrary expressions. It does have a surface level weirdness > to > it, but it also "makes sense” in terms of how operators work. > > Yeah… Maybe with parens? > > T.++(x) > (x)T.++ > > Or is that worse?
The parens are legal if the other syntax is legal, but I don't see a reason to require them. -- Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
