On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:15:37PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: : The math folks tell me it makes sense. I can come up with a : half-dozen non-contrived examples, and will if I have to. :-P
I've said this before, and I'll keep repeating it till it sinks in. The math folks are completely, totally, blazingly untrustworthy on this subject. Hyper means one thing and one thing only in Perl 6. If you give me that little prize in the cereal box I will throw it out immediately with extreme prejudice. The mathematicians have all of Unicode to choose from. They can define their own infix_circumfix_metaoperator if they can come up with a consistent meaning for it. They can't have my »« without a fight. Larry