On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT), esp5 wrote:
>> Sure it doesn't pick up everything (late compilation), but in the 1056 files
>> I have there I had exactly 7 occurances of bit operators. This does not
>> impress me enough to use valuable punctuation.
>
>Now, I just tried it on perl5.6.1, and roughly speaking he's right.
>I get eight.
>So, maybe this would be a good way to supplement the language design, by
>categorizing how popular given operators are in actual practise?
Perhaps it would also be the proper time to separate bit-ops for numbers
and for strings. I really really don't like the way it works now in
perl5.
--
Bart.
