Author: larry
Date: Wed Feb 21 09:25:37 2007
New Revision: 13699
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
¥ is replaced by Z. XX becomes simply X and old X must now be spelled X~X.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
==============================================================================
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod (original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Wed Feb 21 09:25:37 2007
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8 Mar 2004
- Last Modified: 8 Feb 2007
+ Last Modified: 21 Feb 2007
Number: 3
- Version: 100
+ Version: 101
=head1 Overview
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
Item assignment = := ::= => += -= **= xx= .=
Loose unary true not
Comma operator ,
- List infix ¥ minmax X XX X~X X*X XeqvX
+ List infix Z minmax X X~X X*X XeqvX
List prefix = : print push say die map substr ... [+] [*] any all
Loose and and
Loose or or xor err
@@ -1069,13 +1069,13 @@
=item *
-infix:<¥>, the zip operator
+infix:<Z>, the zip operator
- 1,2 ¥ 3,4 # (1,3),(2,4)
+ 1,2 Z 3,4 # (1,3),(2,4)
=item *
-The minmax operator
+infix:<minmax>, the minmax operator
$min0, $max0 minmax $min1, $max1 # ($min0 min $min1, $max0 max $max1)
@@ -1094,30 +1094,19 @@
=item *
-List and string cross operators
+infix:<X>, the cross operator
- 1,2 XX 3,4 # (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), (2,4)
- 1,2 X 3,4 # '13', '14', '23', '24'
+ 1,2 X 3,4 # (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), (2,4)
-In contrast to the zip operator, the C<XX> operator returns all the
+In contrast to the zip operator, the C<X> operator returns all the
permutations of its sublists. Hence you may say:
- <a b> XX <1 2>
+ <a b> X <1 2>
and you end up with
('a', '1'), ('a', '2'), ('b', '1'), ('b', '2')
-The C<X> variant crosses the arrays but concatenates strings:
-
- <a b> X <1 2>
-
-produces
-
- 'a1', 'a2', 'b1', 'b2'
-
-The resemblance to C<x> and C<xx> is not entirely accidental.
-
=item *
Cross hyperoperators
@@ -1234,14 +1223,14 @@
precedence on the right sufficiently to govern list infix
operators:
- $: 1,2 ¥ 3,4 # [[1,3],[2,4]]
- @: 1,2 ¥ 3,4 # 1,3,2,4
- @@: 1,2 ¥ 3,4 # [1,3],[2,4]
- %: 1,2 ¥ 3,4 # { 1 => 3, 2 => 4 }
-
- $: 1,2 XX 3,4 # [[1,3],[1,4],[2,3],[2,4]]
- @: 1,2 XX 3,4 # 1,3,1,4,2,3,2,4
- @@: 1,2 XX 3,4 # [1,3],[1,4],[2,3],[2,4]
+ $: 1,2 Z 3,4 # [[1,3],[2,4]]
+ @: 1,2 Z 3,4 # 1,3,2,4
+ @@: 1,2 Z 3,4 # [1,3],[2,4]
+ %: 1,2 Z 3,4 # { 1 => 3, 2 => 4 }
+
+ $: 1,2 X 3,4 # [[1,3],[1,4],[2,3],[2,4]]
+ @: 1,2 X 3,4 # 1,3,1,4,2,3,2,4
+ @@: 1,2 X 3,4 # [1,3],[1,4],[2,3],[2,4]
These can also influence the result of functions that returns lists of
captures:
@@ -2892,7 +2881,7 @@
[//]() # undef
[=]() # undef (same for all assignment operators)
[,]() # []
- [¥]() # []
+ [Z]() # []
User-defined operators may define their own identity values, but
there is no explicit identity property. The value is implicit in the
@@ -2998,17 +2987,17 @@
produces
- ['a', 1, 'x'],
- ['a', 1, 'y'],
- ['a', 2, 'x'],
- ['a', 2, 'y'],
- ['b', 1, 'x'],
- ['b', 1, 'y'],
- ['b', 2, 'x'],
- ['b', 2, 'y']
+ ('a', 1, 'x'),
+ ('a', 1, 'y'),
+ ('a', 2, 'x'),
+ ('a', 2, 'y'),
+ ('b', 1, 'x'),
+ ('b', 1, 'y'),
+ ('b', 2, 'x'),
+ ('b', 2, 'y')
-The string and list forms are common enough to have shortcuts, C<X>
-and C<XX> respectively. See below.
+The list form is common enough to have a shortcut, C<X>.
+See below.
For the general form, any existing, non-mutating infix operator
may be used.
@@ -3280,8 +3269,7 @@
print "Name: $name; Zip code: $zip\n";
}
-C<zip> has an infix synonym, the Unicode operator C<¥>, and its ASCII
-equivalent C<Y>.
+C<zip> has an infix synonym, the C<Z> operator.
To read arrays in parallel like C<zip> but just sequence the values
rather than generating tuples, use C<each> instead of C<zip>.
