Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g

[Bart Lateur]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:19:40 GMT, Fred Heutte wrote:

>Yes, I know ~ is the bitwise negation operator.  Have you EVER used it?

Yes. A lot.

But there is no conflict. ~ is currently just an unary operator, while
your use would be as a binary operator (are those the correct terms?).
For example, in

        -3.4

and in

        2-3.4

the - sign is a *different* kind of operator. No conflict.

-- 
        Bart.