On Fri, 29 May 2009, Jon Lang wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
I had some thoughts lately about the Perl 6 operators, and wanted to bounce
some ideas.
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Firstly, regarding the string replication ops as documented in Synopsis 3,
'x' and 'xx', I'm wondering whether it might be better to have something
that incorporates a '~', since that operation is about catenation.
Would perhaps '~*' work better than 'x' to signify better what the operation
is doing; the '~' in this case means catenation and the '*' is meant to
invoke 'multiply', not 'whatever'. So '~*' means "catenate a multiple of
times".
This would then free up 'x' to be used for something else, if anything.
As for a substitution for 'xx', I'm less sure about that.
Thoughts?
I wouldn't mind 'x' becoming '~x' and 'xx' becoming 'x'; it strikes me
as a lot more intuitive - and I've wanted to see this done for a while
now. I suppose that you might also introduce a '?x' and/or a '+x' to
complete the set, though for the life of me I can't think of how
they'd work or what they'd be good for.
How about if xx became x, and then we did things like:
[~] @list x $count
...to get the string replciation?
HTH,
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