Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
I would love to have a way to write function calls infix. That may
cover your use case as well. That is (strawman syntax):
arg1 #func arg2
would be syntactic sugar for
func(arg1, arg2)
Advantages: more versatile, less grawlixy.
# is pure grawlix. It's also one of the few ASCII punctuators left, so
wanted otherwise.
Problem: would make much more sense with multiple dispatch (dynamic
dispatch over the arguments), but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards
for JavaScript.
The operators stuff I've been developing uses a variant of multimethod
dispatch.
Operators cannot be usable if spelled #add, so we must support all the
built-in ones I've talked about (see
http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/js-resp). Whether we need
element-wise operators is really what this thread is about (I think,
based on Tristan's spinout). Arbitrary infix named operators IMHO want
another thread, and also later. Design means leaving things out (N. Wirth).
/be
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