Re: reduce via ^ again

2002-09-09 Thread Damian Conway
John Williams wrote: > Back in October I suggested that $a ^+= @b would act like reduce, > but in discussion > it was decided that it would act like length > I now pose the question: Is ^+= a "hyper assignment operator" or an > "assignment hyper operator"? > with a scalar involved > the me

reduce via ^ again

2002-09-07 Thread John Williams
Apologies for trying to resuscitate this old horse, but a new idea occurred to me. Back in October I suggested that $a ^+= @b would act like reduce, but in discussion it was decided that it would act like length, by the interpretation: $a ^+= @b $a = $a ^+ @b $a = ($a, $a, $a, ..