Please see the list of "commonly proposed changes", which discusses this. 
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md 
<https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md>

Jordan

> On Jun 8, 2016, at 14:30, Saagar Jha via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think keeping operators as actual operators is preferable. Having some but 
> not all operators be keywords makes them “special” and unique, which they 
> aren’t.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:26 PM Saagar Jha <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Well, IIRC Swift doesn’t allow operators that aren’t (math) symbols, right? 
> That might be the first barrier to clear.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:24 PM Pranjal Satija via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I had an idea recently about the use of logical operators in Swift, 
> specifically && and ||. I felt that it would be more clear to replace these 
> with the words “and” and “or”. And since most keywords can be used as 
> argument labels in functions now, this should be more feasible than ever. I 
> understand that it isn’t a huge difference, but I feel like it might help 
> make code easier to read, and it would also reduce some confusion for 
> beginners. Could you let me know what you think?
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