On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:59:53PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > > Hyperoperators: > > > > I sort of understand it, but don't really grok it. I can sort of > > thing of ways it might eliminate the need for a few maps and > > foreaches. Damian, might I request some clarification in Exogenesis? > > Well, I'll probably clarify them in Exegesis instead. > "External birth" would seem a bit extreme here. ;-)
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you'd laid an egg. ;) > > Backtracking: > > > > Ok, I don't get it at all. Damian, clarification? > > Nothing to clarify. Larry punted (to a later Apocalypse). > > Okay. That's a cop-out. He's basically saying that you can write > C<andthen> and C<orthen> yourself as: <snip> I understand that much. What I don't quite get is the utility. There's some hand-waving in the RFC about making parsers easier. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Obscenity is the last resort of the illiterate, Mother Fucker -- KAL
