On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:14:18AM +0200, Michele Dondi wrote:
: Hmmm... I am one of those who likes ./ more, instead. I mean, I _really_
: like it! Thus, how about making '/' less meaningless, i.e. more
: meaningful, in more general situations?!?
Um, do you have a specific proposal? Like maybe / can be applied as a
metaoperator to any binary operator to make it into a unary operator
with the left side implicitly $?SELF, or some such? Hmm...
if ==/ 3 # if $?SELF == 3
could even extend it to postfix ops:
++/; # $?SELF++
However, it has several problems. First, "." isn't really a binary
operator, but the prefix of a postfix operator. Second, the / is
potentially ambiguous with a following pattern unless we require
space before termish /. Third, the / is psychologically in the wrong
place to stand in for something in front. Or to turn these on their
head, we've just made three good arguments for something like:
if o == 3
and
o++;
I'm afraid that, while ./ is cute and visually distinctive, I find
I'm getting tired of its idiosyncracies. You shouldn't go out and
marry someone just because they're cute and visually distinctive.
Hooray for long engagements, and occasional disengagements.
Larry
