No, this isn't a complaint about the number of operators in Perl6. ;-) Rather I'd just like to throw out an idea (or two) that occurred to me today somewhere between consciousness and the lack thereof while riding the Skytrain.
Obviously the Perl6 community has accepted that it's possible to have variants on operators for things like vectorization. I'm wondering if there would be any desire, need or room for what I have so far thought of as "persistent" (or "Energizer Bunny") operators. The closest analogy I can think of is a spreadsheet formula, where when one cell is altered, any calculations dependent on the data in that cell are recalculated. The other thought that grew from these random neurons firing was whether or not it would be possible to have operators that don't actually do anything until the data they're dependent upon changes. my $a = 0; my $b = 9; $a later= $b; print "$a $b\n" # 0 9 $b = 10; print "$a $b\n" # 10 10 Not sure if any of this would be even remotely useful, but this seems to be as good a place as any to discuss wacky ideas that are of dubious value. :-) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 20/02/2004
