On Mar 3, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Dean Landolt wrote: > > What you're describing sounds a lot more like trait composition than > prototypal extension. While that'd be great it's already been nixed for this > go-round. I don't really think of this op as a function composition but > regardless, it's definitely a non-commutative binary operation -- there are > two arguments and the order matters a great deal. We just have to decide what > order. But yeah, it's pretty arbitrary, and both prior art and intuition seem > a bit muddy :-/
One reason that I prefer <| is that I find it easy to think about it as a close approximation to an atomic symbol such as ◁ (U+35c1). I don't perceive the < and | as individual elements and hence I don't have any cognitive dissonance about its meaning. I find this less so with +< which places + in a more distinctive position which leads me to think about mean of + in this new context. I have a similar, but slightly less negative reaction to <~ simply because the ~ is much more visually distinct than | . I admit that this distinction between <| and <~ or +< seems pretty arbitrary, but at least for me, I think it has an actual perceptual basis. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
