== Why is this an issue?

Surrounding your operators with whitespace in operator declarations will help maintainers derive meaning from what might otherwise look like a meaningless jumble of punctuation.


=== Noncompliant code example

[source,swift]
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func <*>(a: MyClass, b: MyClass) -> Boolean { // Noncompliant
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=== Compliant solution

[source,swift]
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func <*> (a: MyClass, b: MyClass) -> Boolean {
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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

Add whitespace around "x".


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== Comments And Links
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=== on 21 May 2015, 11:53:00 Ann Campbell wrote:
\[~elena.vilchik] further tweak to title. Okay?

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