Re: Another adverb on operator question

2008-08-07 Thread Jon Lang
Perhaps I'm missing something; but why couldn't you say '[lt]:lc $a, $b, $c'? That is, I see the "reducing meta-operator" as a way of taking a list-associative infix operator and treating it as a function call, albeit one with a funny name. As such, you should be able to do things with a reduced

Re: Another adverb on operator question

2008-08-07 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:04:41AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > What about adverbs on reduction operators? > > [lt :lc] $a,$b,$c # all in decreasing order I don't think that'll fly because reduce operators are parsed as single tokens to disambiguate them from array composers, and there a