Larry mused:
Now I'm wondering whether these should be split into:
+& +| +! - bitwise operations on int
+&= +|= +!=
~& ~| ~! - bitwise operations on str
~&= ~|= ~!=
I think this is UME (Unnecessary Multiplication of Entities), especially
given:
+$x .| +$y
~$x .| ~$y
Then we could allow
@a ^.~|= @b; # hyper bitwise string or-equals
Eek! Now, where did I put those dried frog pills???
I think a good case can be made for *not* defining the corresponding
super assignment operators: &=, |=, and umm...I guess it would have
to be !=, er...
I suspect disjunctive superpositions will get a great deal
of use as sets, and so the ability to add an element to an
existing set:
$set |= $new_element;
might be appreciated. But it's no big thing.
I'd still love to the double angles for a qw synonym.
I was hoping we'd be able to generalize << from the heredoc introducer to
the file slurp operator. But I can certainly see the attraction of:
use enum <<d'oh ray me far solar tea>>;
;-)
: (heredocs) - (exact format unknown)
I have a paper (coming) on that.
Damian
