Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: Are there others, aside from these: ? prefix: a unary prefix operator infix: a binary infix operator postfix:a binary suffix operator circumfix: a bracketing operator Tons. From A12: [snip] On the wild side of

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Luke Palmer
Michele Dondi writes: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: Are there others, aside from these: ? prefix: a unary prefix operator infix: a binary infix operator postfix:a binary suffix operator circumfix: a bracketing operator Tons. From

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:49:33AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: : Michele Dondi writes: : On the wild side of things, could there be the possibility of even : defining new ones? : : That's what I meant by: : : grammatical_category:postcircumfix : : Though it wouldn't be so magical as to just

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:46:25AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : With an array : match, you might find yourself redispatching individual operators in a : switch statement to provide that kind of specificity. In particular, macros with is parsed will want to have a place to hang their special parse

Re: fast question

2004-07-07 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:39:07PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: Matija Papec writes: Would there be a way to still use simple unquoted hash keys like in old days ($hash{MYKEY})? Of course there's a way to do it. This is one of those decisions that I was against for the longest time,

Re: fast question

2004-07-07 Thread Luke Palmer
David Storrs writes: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:39:07PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: Matija Papec writes: Would there be a way to still use simple unquoted hash keys like in old days ($hash{MYKEY})? Of course there's a way to do it. This is one of those decisions that I was

Re: fast question

2004-07-06 Thread Luke Palmer
Matija Papec writes: Would there be a way to still use simple unquoted hash keys like in old days ($hash{MYKEY})? imho %hashMYKEY at first sight resembles alien ship from Independence day. :) Of course there's a way to do it. This is one of those decisions that I was against for the