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Aaron Crane
Date:
November 27, 2010 04:22
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Add "safe arrow/safe dereference" operator: &&->
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Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> It's a gut feeling, but I'd be more comfortable with it as a single long
> token, rather than 2, even if that makes the patching needed larger.

+1.  If C< term infixop1 infixop2 term > is an expression for any pair
of infix operators, we restrict our future ability to add a prefix
operator that's spelled like infixop2; I think that would be a shame.

-- 
Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/

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