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We allow use right now but strongly advise against them, as the overloaded operators strain the compiler. But worse, they hide the triple-valued logic of SQL, which can lead to bugs. So let's finally, in a breaking change, fully make these operators unavailable.
stephencelis
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I think we can kill this doc since we found that == and != were the operators that strained the compiler the most in practice (we freely use &&, <, and others).
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A few of these are simply deprecated because they otherwise fall down to Swift's built-in == on optional values.
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We allow use right now but strongly advise against them, as the overloaded operators strain the compiler. But worse, they hide the triple-valued logic of SQL, which can lead to bugs.
So let's finally, in a breaking change, fully make these operators unavailable.