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On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote: > Felipe Gasper asked: >> Where can I find documentation on implementing custom operators in Perl? > > Perl currently has no mechanism for custom infix operators. It has > been discussed a few times, but no serious volunteers have stepped up > to the challenge. Peter Martini submitted a demo patch (just a toy), > but it was barely sufficient, only allowing two precedence levels > (<https://github.com/PeterMartini/perl/tree/peter/infix>). > Of the potential issues with the patch, I hadn't though an insufficient number of precedence levels would be one of them, the distinction being, conceptually, like 'and' or like '&&'. Can you give more details on what other precedence levels could be offered? I didn't push any further with the patch mainly because (as far as I know) the custom operators we have already were designed by Zefram, and he's not happy with how its currently done, so pushing further seemed unwise without proper insight into what the problems are.Thread Next