Re: Overloading && ||

[Damian Conway]

   > >What if I want to overload && and || so that they help built an expression
   > >tree, rather than immediately evaluating?
   > 
   > Is it worth the damage it will cause to fragile brains like mine?

"Pain is the weakness leaving your body!"

;-)

   > I have often wondered whether a language could allow user-defined 
   > operators.  The fact that none have done it should be a clue :-)  I guess 
   > it's getting too incestuous with the lexer.

User-defined operators are a can of rattle-snakes that I *seriously*
recommend we don't open.

Damian