Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BTW, this is not just theoretical yearnings. I have written three modules
in the past year that do not work as well as they could, simply because it
is not possible to overload and ||.
Damian
I have one too.
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Nick Ing-Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Summary: I think these should all simply break down into a single
Boolification test of some sort, as occurs already with operator
overload.
LOGHIGHAND Called in context
LOGHIGHOR Called in || context
LOGLOWAND Called in and context
LOGLOWOR Called in or context
LOGIFELSE
Summary: I think these should all simply break down into a single
Boolification test of some sort, as occurs already with operator
overload.
Counter-summary: Although the high and low precedence binary ops could be
rolled together, the current version of operator
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Tom Christiansen wrote:
Hm I don't recall C++ ever thinking to overload the control-flow
operators ("", "||", "," (that is, comma), and "?:"). Why not?
Even if their "a b" should produce a more mundane 1 or 0, one
still might wish control.
'', '||', et
I can currently overload + * to do this, but not . That's broken.
Hm I don't recall C++ ever thinking to overload the control-flow
operators ("", "||", "," (that is, comma), and "?:"). Why not?
Even if their "a b" should produce a more mundane 1 or 0, one
still might wish control.
Data Conversion and Access
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STRING Called in a string context
NUMBER Called in a numeric context
BOOLEAN Called in a boolean context
Operator Overloading
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True Polymorphic Objects
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Maintainer: Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Aug 2000
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Version: 1
Number: 159
Status: Developing
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Oh geez! I'm sorry, I forgot to mention David Nicol in the REFERENCES,
who also gave great input, especially on the BOOLEAN accessor. Thanks
David! I swear I'll put you in v2. :-{
-Nate
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:23:25PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Operator Overloading
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PLUS Called in + context
MINUSCalled in - context
TIMESCalled in * context
DIVIDED
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
Operator Overloading
-
PLUS Called in + context
MINUSCalled in - context
TIMESCalled in * context
DIVIDED Called in / context
MODULUS
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
Operator Overloading
-
PLUS Called in + context
MINUSCalled in - context
TIMESCalled in * context
DIVIDED Called in / context
MODULUS
Nathan Wiger wrote:
Oh geez! I'm sorry, I forgot to mention David Nicol in the REFERENCES,
who also gave great input, especially on the BOOLEAN accessor. Thanks
David! I swear I'll put you in v2. :-{
-Nate
Whatever.
You could overload
FILE STRING
to be a print operator
You could overload
FILE STRING
to be a print operator returning a FILE so we can do C++ like
cout "hello Bjarne" eol;
That would be--and always has been--pretty darned horrible. You've
managed to hide the verb completely. It's much clearer when it
command verb is in the
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