> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Me wrote:
> : That's one reason why I suggested control of this sort
> : of thing should be a property of the operation, not of
> : the operands.
>
> I think that by and large, the operator knows whether it wants to
> do union or intersection. When you're doing +, it's obviously
> union that you want, with undef defaulting to 0. And // would
> want intersection.
Ok. So I accidentally got something right! ;> ("control of this sort of
thing should be a property of the operation, not of the operands.")
There are clearly some operations where adverbs make sense.
Presumably one of the classes of op for which adverbs might
make sense is hyperop.
Assuming so, did my suggestion of ^adverb make sense to you
as a way to distinguish op and hyperop adverbs?
--
ralph
