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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
May 4, 2005 06:18
Subject:
Re: reduce metaoperator
Message ID:
20050504131758.GE2741@wall.org
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:58:14PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
: Juerd skribis 2005-05-04 14:53 (+0200):
: >     @foo ==> zip <== @bar
: 
: Hmmmm...
: 
:            @quux
:              ||
:              ||
:              \/
:     @foo ==> zip <== @bar
:              /\ 
:              ||   
:              ||
:            @xyzzy
: 
: :)

That's actually...er, doable...in Perl 6...er...if you install a token
parse rule with whitespace in it to disambiguate from the shorter ops...
But perhaps Unicode operators would be more toward.  Besides, then
you can have the diagonal arrows as well.

Larry

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