On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:42:58PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > > John observed: > > > I just read Apocalypse and Exegesis 3, and something stuck out at me > > because of its omission, namely using hyper operators for reduction. > > > > $a ^+= @list; # should sum the elements of @list
Does this mean that @a ^+= @b; will add every value of @b to every value of @a? -C. > > Well, I suspect Larry didn't mention it because he didn't want to scare > people *too* much. I didn't mention it for a much simpler reason: > because, in the heat of trying to weld together a concise example to > explain of everything Larry had designed, this neat corollary of ^ > simply didn't occur to me. ;-) > > Damian
