Ouch. How would a human parse [apple'*'pear]
If this doesn't immediately scan as [ (*') (apple') (pear) ] to you (it
doesn't to me) then maybe allowing ' in infix operators may not be the
best thing.
John Meacham wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:01:07AM -0500, Cale Gibbard wrote:
I also like this idea. Retaining the ability to treat selection as a
function easily is quite important, and this meets that criterion
nicely. Also, in which case does this cause a program to break? It
seems that you're only reinterpreting what would be unterminated
character literals.
Ah, you are right. for some reason I was thinking we allowed identifiers
to start with ', but yeah. this seems fully backwards compatable. while
we are at it, we should allow ' in infix operators to.
a *' b = almostMultiply a b
John
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