Ed Peschko writes: > I agree with all that you said above, I'm just saying we should make typing [] > *optional*. 99% of the time, people are not going to need it, as they are not > defining their own operators as you did above. > > Ed > >
long ago ( when xor was "!" and ^ was called hyper ) Larry Wall was talking about allowing spaces between "bulding blocks of long operators @a ^ .+ = @b . so optional [ ] in vector operations becomes *very* similar to optional ( ) in function call . Now almost sure , that name of the vectorization will change couple of times ( and if it's sub one ( everyone will ! ) can define alias &operator:^[] := &operator:`<<>>` ( very vague ) ). so , maybe , the fruitfull way to generalize vector operations is to say : perl do not have vector operations . perl have operator algebra ( does it ? ) that can produce "vector" version of any operator , but more so . op op = ^ op v op t op ... arcadi
