Re: reduce via ^ again

2002-09-09 Thread Damian Conway
John Williams wrote: Back in October I suggested that $a ^+= b would act like reduce, but in discussion it was decided that it would act like length I now pose the question: Is ^+= a hyper assignment operator or an assignment hyper operator? with a scalar involved the method and

reduce via ^ again

2002-09-07 Thread John Williams
Apologies for trying to resuscitate this old horse, but a new idea occurred to me. Back in October I suggested that $a ^+= b would act like reduce, but in discussion it was decided that it would act like length, by the interpretation: $a ^+= b $a = $a ^+ b $a = ($a, $a, $a, ...)