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We should either fix it or kill it. Fixing it should take the form of reducing the matching behaviour table to just a handful of rows, of which the main one relies on ~~ overloading on the rhs. Tony's branch mostly does this. However, I disagree with permitting overloading on the lhs. That part of Tony's branch (which is also not properly documented) should be ripped out. The type of matching to perform should be determined entirely by the rhs, and any type of matching that amounts to "ask the lhs whether it matches" is too surprising and not useful enough to warrant being a built-in matching rule. -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next