Predicting Operators

2004-05-27 Thread Mark Lentczner
Uri Guttman wrote: are you going to predict any new operators based on missing boxes as mendeleev did? :) Funny you should ask! It is clear that there is a missing "list concatenate" operator, and that its spelling should be ~~. Alas, that is already taken by "smart match". On the other hand,

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-05-27 Thread Mark Lentczner
Thanks for all the comments. I started this thing as a goof, but I can already see that it will serve dual purposes. Presenting information in such a form can lead people to further insights and questions. Deborah Pickett's comments in this thread are an example. (For some real inspiring ex

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-05-27 Thread Stéphane Payrard
Le Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:34:32AM +0200, le valeureux mongueur Gabriel Ebner a dit: > Hello, > > Mark Lentczner wrote: > > http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.html > > What's periodic about it? We hope it will be periodically updated. :) > Otherwise, _nice_ table. indee.d

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-05-27 Thread Deborah Pickett
Mark Lentczner wrote: Awhile back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few months to get around to drawing it... http://www.ozoneho

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-05-27 Thread Gabriel Ebner
Hello, Mark Lentczner wrote: > http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.html What's periodic about it? Otherwise, _nice_ table. Gabriel. -- Gabriel Ebner - reverse "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-05-27 Thread Matthew Walton
Mark Lentczner wrote: All - Awhile back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few months to get around to drawing it... http://www.o

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-05-27 Thread David Landgren
Mark Lentczner wrote: All - Awhile back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few months to get around to drawing it... http://www.o