Yanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:40:20PM -0500, Yanick wrote:
>> > But I still don't understand what it brings more
>> > than a classic 'map',
>
> Simon and Abigail replied:
>> [..] side-effect of the existence
>> of the other hyper-operators, [..]
>
> Ooooh... Gotcha. I wasn't aware of this whole new panoply of
> toys^D^D^D^Dtools.
>
> Now I have to go read the Perl 6.0 specs to see
> if this applies to hashes too. %a = %b ^+ %c has a most
> definitive twisted appeal to it. :)
I think it does apply, but I'm not sure if addition is well defined on
pairs...
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
