On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:00:59PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> : binary operators: > : + - * / % ** x ~ << >> > : += -= *= /= %= **= x= ~= <<= >>= > > We could distinguish an xx operator (along with xx=) that does list > replication, rather than requiring parens around the left argument. I initially thought that ^x would be a good way of expressing this, but now I'm not so sure. A hyper operator does some sort of vector version of an operator based on the dimensionality of the left argument. But for x vs xx the left argument has no change in dimensionality, and even swapping things round doesn't help, as the replication count is scalar. Nicholas Clark -- INTERCAL better than perl? http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/
