Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote:
Indeed, getting "close enough" is one of the underlying design themes of Perl 6. As to whether we're close to do the operator aliasing in a mostly digraphic fashion, I'm not sure. Currently a macro for an infix would be given the AST of the left argument to play with, and the opportunity to influence the parse of its right argument. This is overkill for a mere alias. We may need to distingish single-token substitution macros from macros that govern the ASTs around them in order to make such operator canonicalization painless, I think.
Yes. A context-sensitive (e.g. infix) token-for-token exchange that is easily defined as such without letting the user get into too much trouble. If the operator names can read this table too, then it won't matter which is the "real" one. Someone can declare an overloaded operator with either name, as well as call it with either name.
