Brent Dax wrote: > Edwin Steiner: > # Could there also be *hypo*-operators, i.e. operators which try to > # *lower* (reduce) the dimensionality of their operands to the lowest > # common dim. So > # > # $foo = 5 +^ (1,2); > # > # would set $foo to (5 + 1) + 2 <...> > # > > I don't really see the use of hypo-operators. > Well, it's pretty handy to be able to generalise what join() does for concat to any abitrary function. It's covered by: http://dev.perl.org/rfc/76.html which proposes a new reduce() builtin.
Edwin's idea was that this could be done with an adverb just like '^' does for element-wise array operations. Such an approach has been used successfully in other languages, but I haven't seen any indication that Larry and Damian are considering this for P6.
