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Re: Semantics of vector operations

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From:
Smylers
Date:
February 9, 2004 01:53
Subject:
Re: Semantics of vector operations
Message ID:
slrnc2csae.eus.Smylers@stripey.com
[Apologies for the delay in responding to this (and other) messages -- I
read some of these a couple of weeks ago but didn't want to reply till
I'd read the entire thread, then I was away a bit ...]

Larry Wall writes:

> On the other hand, it's possible that we should extend the visual
> metaphor of »« and apply it asymmetrically when one of the arguments
> is expected to be scalar.

The more I've thought about this since you suggested it, the more sense
it makes.

Smylers


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