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Re: Tying & Overloading
From:
John Porter
Date:
April 24, 2001 07:08
Subject:
Re: Tying & Overloading
Message ID:
20010424100833.A10666@min.net
Simon Cozens wrote:
> Let's put it a different way - if we can find a short operator which
> is readily accessible on most people's keyboards, then that would
> score over a longer operator which is readily accessible on most
> people's keyboards. Maybe ~ isn't that operator. Maybe & is, or ^ or
> #, or whatever.
Or maybe a word operator, in the same family as cmp, eq, ne, le, gt...
Perl's stigma for unreadability is bad enough already;
now at least we have a good opportunity to unwreak some badness.
--
John Porter