Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Erik Lechak
Hello all, I have been using Perl for years. It is the language of choice for most of my needs. This is my first time posting. I have read Apocalypse 3 and many of your responses. Issues: 1) Binary _or string concatenation 2) RFC 082: Arrays: Apply operators element-wise in a

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Jeremy Howard
Erik Lechak wrote: 2) RFC 082: Arrays: Apply operators element-wise in a list context (hyper operators) and 3) Special variable representing index of array in foreach structure $# maybe (not in apocolypse3, I think) Hi Eric. Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately it's a little early for

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Erik Lechak
Thanks for the info, Bryan, Thank you for the info. I am more engineer than computer scientist, so please excuse the ignorance behind these questions. Except that the operator truly is simply an underscore. But it's also a valid identifier character, so where it may be confused

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 06 October 2001 03:47 pm, Erik Lechak wrote: Thank you for the info. I am more engineer than computer scientist, so please excuse the ignorance behind these questions. No problem. Except that the operator truly is simply an underscore. But it's also a valid identifier

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Erik Lechak
Bryan, I guess my biggest complaint was that underscore would be the only single character operator that would be in danger of being lumped into the variable name. I forgot about x . I use it all the time. If x has that constraint why not the underscore. I worked at a place where