Single Quoted Character Literals (Why yes, again)

[taylorswift]

i’ve gone back and reworked the proposal based on the feedback from this thread. since it is a significant departure from the proposal in its current form, i decided to post it as a new thread. here is the link for anyone interested:

Single-quoted code unit literals

preface: this is a follow-up to Single Quoted Character Literals (Why yes, again) . @johnno1962 has communicated to me that he intends to take a short break from swift evolution, so as the other author of the “character literals” pitches, i will fill-in for him in the meantime. in light of some of the feedback we received on the most recent pitch thread, i have gone back and reworked the proposal in an attempt to relieve the logjam. older revisions: revision 1 (out of date) current revis…