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From:
Damian Conway
Date:
July 7, 2002 14:20
Subject:
Re: what's new continued
Message ID:
3D28B078.4304AE11@conway.org
Ashley Winters asked:
> > It *might* possibly work to hyper the constructor:
> >
> > my ($a, $b) = ^new Foo
>
> Would prefix ^ always return 'wanted' number of repetitions? Like a
> smart C<x Inf>?
This does bother me about the above proposed syntax/semantics. Hyperoperations
take their "magnitude" from that of their operand(s).
I would have expected the above example needed to be:
my ($a, $b) = ^new (Foo,Foo);
or maybe:
my ($a, $b) = ^new Foo x 2;
Damian
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