Re: Overloading && ||

[Peter Scott]

At 04:58 AM 8/10/00 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>    > No.  I don't want to see && or || and not know whether it short-circuits
>    > without looking in the class interface.  My brain is conditioned through
>    > years of C and Perl to expect that they always short-circuit.  This 
> is too
>   > venerable a semantic to change.  Please.
>
>What if I want to overload && and || so that they help built an expression
>tree, rather than immediately evaluating?

Is it worth the damage it will cause to fragile brains like mine?

I have often wondered whether a language could allow user-defined 
operators.  The fact that none have done it should be a clue :-)  I guess 
it's getting too incestuous with the lexer.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies