Ok, thanks. Although it doesn't seem to be the case for |, eg "|(true, false)" works out of the box.
On Monday, August 18, 2014 4:24:31 PM UTC-6, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > This are some of those few operators that need parens to be used in > function call syntax: > > julia> (&)(3,5) > 1 > > julia> (|)(3,5) > 7 > > > This isn't required in unambiguous situations like as an argument to > another function: > > julia> reduce(|, 0:8) > 15 > > > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:20 PM, ggggg <galen...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Is there a named function that does what & does, eg "&(a,b) == a&b"? I >> actually want a multi argument version like "$(a,b,c...)". Also is that >> the name of that function is not "&" and "& is not overloadable? The same >> is not true of "|". >> >> *julia> **a = zeros(Bool,10);b=[randbool() for j=1:10];* >> >> *julia> **a&b==b* >> >> *false* >> >> *julia> **a|b==b* >> >> *true* >> >> *julia> **|(a,b)==b* >> >> *true* >> >> *julia> **&(a,b)==b* >> >> >> *ERROR: unsupported or misplaced expression & * >> *julia> **&(a,b) = a&b* >> >> *ERROR: syntax: invalid assignment location* >> >> Julia even seems to think & is a function >> >> *julia> **&* >> >> *& (generic function with 35 methods)* >> >> >> >
