> On Oct 28, 2016, at 7:22 PM, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A person should not need to buy a special keyboard or device, or know how to
> work the option/alt key, in order to write the less-than-or-equal-to operator.
But my main point is that the symbols painted on the physical keyboard are no
longer our only (or even best) method of discovery. If ≤ comes up in the
auto-complete when you write < or <=, then it solves the discovery issue. We
can even use this to teach the option/alt key method (this is the what the Mac
does to teach command keys associated with menu items).
Your point about the search-ability of symbols is an important one, but that
can also be solved with appropriate UI for discovery of the associated
(searchable) keywords.
Swift is a language being designed for the next 20-30 years, we shouldn’t be
limiting ourselves based on technology that is already being replaced (as you
mentioned many of the devices people use everyday already have a soft keyboard…
and Ive said the TouchBar was just the beginning of a new direction). We need
to aim for where the puck is going to be…
Thanks,
Jon
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