On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Markus Laire wrote: : I don't think there should be any upper limit for operator-lengths.
There will never be any official limits. Perl is not about arbitrary limits. But I will tell you that I only added <=> to Perl 5 because I knew there would never be a <=>= operator. We'll have to relax that a bit for Perl 6, but we're still trying vaguely to avoid the Icon trap. Only compositions of operators will be allowed to get longer than 3 chars. And we try to keep the basic operators at 2 or less. The really great thing about the French quotes is that they visually keep the user aware of the composition. «+=» is obviously a variety of +=, whereas ^+= is not obvious, though shorter. (Square brackets are even better at that, but have other problems.) Larry
