On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:03:55PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > Do they need to? In the simple case, the hyperoperator provides list > context to its arguments, but just calls the scalar operation repeatedly > to fake up the list operation.
Cool. So as far as the parser cares, ^ is simply a flag meaning "carry out the next operation in an interesting way". That helps. -- "He was a modest, good-humored boy. It was Oxford that made him insufferable."