--- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 01:05 PM, Hodges, Paul wrote: > > Didn't know "is" would do that. Good to know! > > And in my meager defense, I did reference MikeL's operator > > synopsis as of 3/25/03, which said ^[op] might be a synonym > > for <<>> or >><< (Sorry, no fancy chars here. :) > > Hey, that was *March*! ;-) The fossil records from that time are > fragmentary, at best.
lol... and I've been a little out of the loop lately, too. > I don't think I ever saw any further reference to the ^[op] syntax > staying alive; I assume that means it's dead. Last I heard, which > was admittedly around the same time frame, we'd have the > non-Unicode-using >>op<<, and a Unicode synonym »op«, and that's it. I think I saw a few of those in passing. Been a while. :) > There were also vaguely threatening proposals to have <<op>> and > >>op<< do slightly different things. I assume that is also dead, > and that <<op>> is (typically) a syntax error. Which is probably a good idea. We have any/all/one/none, and not *everything* needs a punctuation-type version. I'd actually rather *not* have alternate versions of those, unless they do something different, like they way "or" has a lower precedence than "||". Likewise, if we're going to use <<>> as P6's version of P5's qw//, then never mind the complexity of making the parser able to figure out that a given case of <<+>> means I've deleted all other items from the list, rather than wanting a distributive addition.... Yes, I could figure it out, but there are currently enough contextually dependent items in the language that the importance of that one doesn't strike me as 'core' necessary, if you know what I mean. :o) > If anyone in the know knows otherwise, plz verify for Piers' summary > and the future fossil record. > MikeL Could we get a synopsis posted somewhere? Maybe something that inticates the current state of this particular onion? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
