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From:
Ashley Winters
Date:
July 7, 2002 14:48
Subject:
Re: what's new continued
Message ID:
200207071447.49086.qaqortog@nwlink.com
On Sunday 07 July 2002 02:19 pm, Damian Conway wrote:
> 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);

How about:

$_ = new Doberman for my Dog ($spot, $rover) is rw;

Err, whatever.

Ashley Winters

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