Re: Possible Vector Operator Notations

2002-11-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phew! I'm slightly concerned at this list making Piers's job too easy, but have tried to minimize that effect by posting on a Monday (meaning that this mail is ineligible for inclusion in the next summary and is likely to be out of date by the time of the

Possible Vector Operator Notations

2002-11-04 Thread Smylers
The many recent suggestions for denoting vector operators all seem to have problems, with some having significant impact elsewhere in the language. After reading a few hundred mails on the subject I'm no longer sure what I prefer, but thought I'd be in a better position to have an opinion if I at

Re: Possible Vector Operator Notations

2002-11-04 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smylers) writes: Thank you very, very much for this; this is supremely helpful. » No character left for eating whitespace. That's a feature, not a bug! The space-eater alternately worries, confuses and scares me. -- I want you to know that I create nice things like

Re: Possible Vector Operator Notations

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Smylers summarized (beautifully, thank-you): * the looks like an array option: [op] » Seemed a nice idea, but doesn't work with other use of square brackets. Could be made to work. Suppose that every operator definition (explicit or implicit) automagically also defined a variant