Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the ¥(yen) suggestion is great, especially since it does indeed
look like a zipper. Still, I would very much like an ASCII infix
alternative for zip().
I propose z as the ASCII alternative for the infix zip operator (either
broken bar or yen).
Piers Cawley skribis 2004-03-29 16:33 (+0100):
You'll really confuse the deep functional programmers if you do that,
for whom the term 'Y operator' means something very different
Probably, but is that a good reason to not use it?
Many Perl 6 things will already really confuse Perl 5
Juerd: your message arrived in my inbox as an attachment due to a mail server
along the way not recognizing the charset value. It should be utf-8
with the hyphen, not utf8. Also for that reason all the non-ASCII
characters (like the Yen symbol) came through as '?' here.
Kara Perlistoj,
And
Mark J. Reed wrote:
One obvious reason for reaching out to unicode characters is the
restricted number of non-alphanumeric characters in ASCII. But why do
infix operators have to be non-alphanumeric?
They don't - but they do have to look like operators. Thanks to the
multiplication symbol,
Kara Perlistoj,
the zip operator is a useful one. I like it a lot. But I've been writing
zip() all the time, even though I think an infix operator is nicer. (Not
for for though, because you also have commas in the pointy sub's
parameter list.)
However, the broken bar is in my opinion a bad
--- Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kara Perlistoj,
the zip operator is a useful one. I like it a lot. But I've been writing
zip() all the time, even though I think an infix operator is nicer. (Not
for for though, because you also have commas in the pointy sub's
parameter list.)
However,
