>Atriel:
>> Damian:
>> Can I suggest that an alternative solution might be the following:
>>
>> Suppose Perl 6 had two new very low precedence operators: ~> and <~
>> (a.k.a. "bind rightwards" and "bind leftwards")
>>
>> @out = @a ~> grep {...} ~> map {...} ~> sort;
>>
>> @out = sort <~ map {...} <~ grep {...} <~ @a;
>>
>> That way, everything is still a method call, the ultra-low precedence of
>> <~ and ~> eliminate the need for parens, and (best of all) the
>> expressions actually *look* like processing sequences.
>
>(a) OOh, shiny!
>
>(b) Can <~ and ~> be used at the same time?
>
>I'm not entirely sure of what functions take two array params
>meaningfully, but could we do:
Damian's proposal didn't say anything about array params. If I understood
him correctly, then this should print "FOO" on standard out:
my $foo = "FOO";
$foo ~> print;
The opposite 'squiggly arrow' fiddles the indirect object, so perhaps this
would print "FOO" on standard error (modulo the STDERR syntax, which I think
changed when I wasn't looking):
$foo ~> print <~ STDERR;
Philip
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