Hyper operators with operands of different size are partly covered
in A3:
Hyper operators will also intuit where a dimension is missing from one
of its arguments, and replicate a scalar value to a list value in that
dimension. That means you can say:
@a ^+ 1
The former example a particular case of the size an operand being a
multiple of the other:
my @a = 6; # <= still supported in perl 6?
@a ^= ( 1, 2, 3);
could be equivalent to
my @a = ( 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3)
We could even extend to operands where none size is a multiple of the
other but I can't see any reason to do that. Also I can't see what
happens when we deal with multidimension arrays. I don't know/remember
if perl6 will make the distinction between jagged multidimensional
arrays (à la C and perl5) and rectangular ones
So my question is: where do we stop? What happen if we can't carry
an hyperator?
Really hyper-operator is too long :)
How do you say "mot valise" in English to denote this conflation of words,
I think Lewis Caroll had a word for that.
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Stéphane Payrard -- s.payrard@@wanadoo.fr
