"Piers Cawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > $a eq : ID $b # yes, I would want to generalize that > > I started off thinking 'well, you could just define an 'is' operator' > and then realised we already have one. Hmm. Personally i don't have a > problem with not having an operator for this particular > functionality, I reckon it 'belongs' as a message...
I've been thinking about my initial suggestions, and the rx modifiers came to mind: I can imagine writing: $a eq:i $b # compare, case insensitive $a eq:w $b # compare, ignore whitespace differences $a eq:ID $b # compare identities I think that the modifier concept is too useful to be limited to the rx// operator. But there is the issue of passing parameters to modifiers. I could live with a restriction that forces me to use the prefix (cf infix) form of the modified operator. Dave.
