On 8/10/05, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:00 -0400, Joe Gottman wrote: > > Will there be an operator for symmetric difference? I nominate (^). > > That makes sense, although bear in mind that the existing Set module for > Perl 6, and the Set::Scalar and Set::Object modules for Perl 5 use % for > this (largely due to overloading restrictions, of course). > > There is no unicode or mathematical operator for symmetric difference, > it seems.
I usually see infix delta (which probably comes from /\, where \ is set difference). That makes (^) seem all the sweeter, since it kinda looks like a delta. But then maybe we should make set difference (\). Luke
