On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Jay Abbott via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote:
> It's s symbol. Here are some others: > ! & * ( . - > > You wouldn't want to allow an identifier to start with any of those > symbols, for obvious reasons. > That's an assertion. Can you substantiate? Because I can think of a whole bunch of reasons for identifiers to start with those, several languages in which they actually *do* start with those, and significant benefit that accrues in those languages from admitting these identifiers...
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