On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: : : > pipe dreams : > Juerd wondered if he could mix = and ==> in a sane way. The answer : > appears to be no. Once you bring in ==> you should stick with it. : : Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C<< ==> >> : is supposed to be yet another operator, albeit somewhat a special one. If : I got it right the answer is actually 'yes': what Larry suggested is that : it would be _stylistically_ better to stick with it once it is used in the : first place.
Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to use <== or ==> for list assignment. That would be...interesting...to say the least. For instance, it would eliminate the guessing games about whether the syntactic form of the left side indicates a list. Doubtless there would be some downsides too... Larry
