Smylers writes:
> > ... It's almost getting to the point where we want to allow
> > disambiguating underscores in operators: >>_+<_<<. Alternately we
> > give up on <<>> as a qw// replacement and allow spaces: >> +< <<.
>
> How about going back to what you originally decreed in Apocalypse 2,
> th
Damian Conway writes:
> Larry mused:
>
> > ... I don't think people would be terribly pleased when they see
> > things like:
> >
> > @a »+<<« @b
>
> > [it] would certainly motivate people to move toward editors and
> > terminals that can display:
> >
> > @a »+<<« @b
>
> Yes, it would
Larry Wall writes:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:03:26PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
>
> : Larry Wall writes:
> :
> : > On the other hand, we've renamed all the other bitwise operators,
> : > so maybe we should rename these too:
> : >
> : > + : > +>
Austin Hastings writes:
> With Larry's new "vectorized sides" suggestion, putting a guillemot on
> the right side of the operator ...
Austin, we've been through this before -- kindly return that guillemot
to wherever you picked it up from. It's hassle enough having unicode in
Perl, without us al
Larry Wall writes:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:51:33PM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote:
>
> : Great, so
> : $x = foo(), bar();
> : means the same thing as
> : $x = ( foo(), bar() );
>
> No, we haven't changed the relative precedence of assignment and
> comma. I've been tempted to, but I alway
[Apologies for the delay in responding to this (and other) messages -- I
read some of these a couple of weeks ago but didn't want to reply till
I'd read the entire thread, then I was away a bit ...]
Larry Wall writes:
> On the other hand, it's possible that we should extend the visual
> metaphor
