Re: Tying & Overloading

[Simon Cozens]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:01:11AM -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
> If you're dead-set on reassigning ., please consider leaving it at
> that, rather than juggling all the other operators around. 

Don't forget that binary ~ doesn't currently exist, so this is adding
syntax rather than reassigning it.

> Make concatination be "$a cat $b".  ("eq" and friends already provide
> precedent for string operators being words rather than symbols.)

While that's true, concatenation is quite a common operation (Introspection
is cool. Run "perl -MO=Terse someprogram | grep concat".) that I'd be really
uncomfortable with it necessitating 4 keystrokes (" cat") instead of one.

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