> On Oct 18, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
> It seems natural to me that currency symbols should be operators. This would
> allow, for example, prefix and postfix operators that take a number and
> return a “Currency” instance:
>
> let inMyPocket = $20
> let lochNess = £3.50
> let twoBits = 25¢
>
> if (inMyPocket - lochNess) > twoBits { … }
>
> Of course, the unnamed closure parameter identifiers would conflict with that
> use of the dollar sign. However, I think Anton has the right idea. We already
> use the number sign for compiler magic, so it would make sense to call the
> closure parameters #0, #1, etc. In my view those even read better than what
> we have now.
>
> Nevin
+1
- Dave Sweeris
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