It just goes to show.. the perl community has already thought of
everything.. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:41 PM
To: Carissa
Cc: Perl Language
Subject: Re: Operators that keep going and going...

Carissa writes:
> 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.

I should hope that would be possible, since it's possible in Perl 5!

See perldoc overload, in the section "Really symbolic calculator" (near
the end).

Luke



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