Re: Tying & Overloading

[John Porter]

Simon Cozens wrote:
> Let's put it a different way - if we can find a short operator which
> is readily accessible on most people's keyboards, then that would
> score over a longer operator which is readily accessible on most 
> people's keyboards. Maybe ~ isn't that operator. Maybe & is, or ^ or
> #, or whatever.

Or maybe a word operator, in the same family as cmp, eq, ne, le, gt...

Perl's stigma for unreadability is bad enough already;
now at least we have a good opportunity to unwreak some badness.

-- 
John Porter