On 26-Sep-07, at 10:13 AM, John Cremona wrote:

>
> Nostalgia for Algol68 !  The line
>
> OP OVER = (INT n,d)RAT: cancel(RAT(n,d));
>
> is taken from my implementation of rational numbers so "one half"
> could be written
>
> 1 OVER 2
>
> and I could also write
>
> DET M

The past is the present: haskell supports det m, 1 `over` 2, and  
ocaml often writes x # foo for foo x.

Nick

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