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List:       ruby-core
Subject:    Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch
From:       Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz () ruby-lang ! org>
Date:       2004-10-11 23:16:44
Message-ID: 1097536603.621205.826.nullmailer () x31 ! priv ! netlab ! jp
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Hi,

In message "Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch"
    on Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:21:08 +0900, Markus <markus@reality.com> writes:

|> * This patch makes difficult to add new operators in the language in
|>   the future.  For example, I might feel like to add '->' behave as
|>   lambda as in Perl6.

|     I don't think the patch would make it any harder to add operators
|in the future--any more than user defined methods make it harder to add
|methods.  In a way, it might make it easier, since they could be written
|in ruby.

As long as it's a binary operator.  I'm thinking something more like
syntax.  For example, Perl6's -> syntax works as "-> x, y {...}",
which would, I think, conflict with any usage of user defined ->
operator.

							matz.

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