Re: Making conversion operators consistently named

2001-12-30 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 09:56 PM 12/29/2001 -1000, David & Lisa Jacobs wrote: >I noticed that for converting numbers to integers and back there are the >named operators "iton" and "ntoi", but for conversions to and from PMCs the >"set" operator is used. > >Should we make all conversions have their own ops (e.g., pton,

Re: Making conversion operators consistently named

2001-12-30 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:46:56AM -0500, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > I still support the idea, but would like Simon / Dan to chime in. I vote for implicit set, too. -- Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle. -- Steven Wright

Re: Making conversion operators consistently named

2001-12-30 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
David -- > I noticed that for converting numbers to integers and back there are the > named operators "iton" and "ntoi", but for conversions to and from PMCs the > "set" operator is used. > > Should we make all conversions have their own ops (e.g., pton, ptoi, ...) or > should we push all conver