Re: Tying & Overloading

[Stephen P. Potter]

Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| I'm thinking concat will be ~.  Furthermore, I'm thinking unary ~ will
| be stringify, and unary ^ will be bit complement, on the theory that
| bit complement is like xoring with 0xffffffff.  And unary + will be a
| numify, not a no-op.

How difficult would it be to co-opt , for concat?  Currently it doesn't do
much of value in a strictly scalar context.  It is also already fairly
synonymous in a string context: 

   print "a", $x, "$b";

Hmmm... this could be a real problem in list context though.  I suppose it
is conceivable that someone might want to do something like:

   @a = ( $a . $b , $c );

Maybe not a good idea.  But maybe something to think about.

-spp