On 29 Oct 2002 at 11:22, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:13:39AM +0200, Markus Laire wrote:
> > Also the idea of allways using 'function' style for something so
> > basic like superpositions doesn't appeal to me.
>
> Superpositions are "basic" in a fabric-of-the-universe kind of way,
> but they are hardly basic in the everyone-learns-them-in-grade-school
> kind of way. I think the latter is more important for huffman coding
> of operators for the unwashed masses. But I'm willing change my mind
> if we start teaching everyone superpositions in grade school :-)
You are making the fundamental mistake of thinking superpositions as
superpositions. When thinking them as another-kind-of or/and, their
usefulness comes a lot clearer.
perl5: if $x == 5 || $x == 7 || $x == 99
perl6: if $x == 5 | 7 | 99
perl5: ...loop to test every value in an array...
perl6: if ! 28 <= any(@days_in_months) <= 31 { ERROR }
(this probably has slight syntax error)
perl5: if $x > 0 && $x < 20 && $y > 0 && $y < 20 && $z > 0 && $z < 20
perl6: if 0 < $x & $y & $z < 20
perl5: if ($x >= 10 && $x <= 20) || ($x >= 30 && $x <= 40)
perl6: if $x ~~ 10..20 | 30..40
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Markus Laire 'malaire' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
