Re: Tying & Overloading

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Dav?? Helgason wrote:
> This wouldn't mean that anyone is thinking of getting us object
> dot-syntax, now would it? 

<whistle>

> After giving it a thought, it seems that it can _mostly_ be
> disambiguated from the concatenation operator. Whatever mostly means.

Or we change the concatenation operator.

$a = $b & $c; # Do people really use Perl for bit fiddling?

$a = $b # $c; /* Urgh */

$a = $b ~ $c; # Mmm!

I like that last one a lot, because it doesn't disturb anything.
You'd have to alter ~'s precedence so that binary ~ is higher
than named unary operators. (It's print($a~$b), not print $a (~b).)

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