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