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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:25:41AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:10:25PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: > : > -----Original Message----- > : > From: Larry Wall [mailto:larry@wall.org] > : > I think some people will want to think of it one way, while others > : > will want to think of it the other way. If that's the case, the > : > proper place to put the marker is between the operand and the operator. > : > : How do you handle operator precedence/associativity? > > Me? I handle it by making it an adverb on the base operator. :-) Does that mean it should get the colon? :) > I don't think that ?X? means "Do whatever the mathematicians want X > to do." Unicode operators have to be good for something, after all. > > So perhaps its best to call ? and ? "distribution modifiers" or > some such. Could someone put the non-unicode variants up there so those of us with unicode-ignorant MUAs can know what exactly we're talking about? Or alternatively (and certainly better), could someone clue me on how to make mutt unicode-aware? thanks, -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff duff@lighthouse.tamucc.eduThread Previous | Thread Next