On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Tristan Zajonc <[email protected]> wrote: > Following up on the discussion about operator overloading, what are viable > options for introducing novel infix operators or a class of > extended/prefixed operators? > > For motivation, I along with some others have implemented a MATLAB/R like > environment for JS. We've written a compile-to-js language that supports, > among other things, operator overloading and prefixed operators, However > we'd much prefer to follow ES6/7 and ideally avoid the need for a > compile-to-js language entirely, at least in the future. Without going into > the details, prefixed operators are useful for defining objectwise and > elementwise operations on matrices, which is a core type in technical > computing (see Julia, MATLAB, Mata, Python PEP 225). > > Assuming JS allowed prefixed operators: > > 1. What would be the most likely syntax? As a reference, Julia and Matlab > use dots, a .+ b. Stata's Mata languages uses colons, a :+ b. PEP225 > proposes tildle a ~+ b. R uses %infix% but this is widely viewed as a bad > choice. The technical community would prefer dots. I know these prefixes > all having meanings alone, but does .op introduce any ambiguity? Are there > other lightweight options?
Yes, .op is completely unusable. "foo .bar" is identical to "foo.bar". ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
