This is going to be a rambling answer, as I have a number of questions
but no firm conclusions. Please bear with me.
Mason Kramer wrote:
> Having Bags flatten in list context is pretty crucial to their being "as
> easy and terse to use as arrays", because flattening is fundamental to
> how Arrays
I'm honored that my letter generated so much activity, and thank you all for
your thoughtful responses. I'd like to address a few points.
> On Monday, 8. November 2010 17:20:43 Jon Lang wrote:
>> Solomon Foster wrote:
>>> Well, hyperoperators work fine on Hashes, they operate on the values,
>>>
On Monday, 8. November 2010 17:20:43 Jon Lang wrote:
> Solomon Foster wrote:
> > Well, hyperoperators work fine on Hashes, they operate on the values,
> > paired up by key if needed. (That is, %hash>>++ doesn't care about
> > the keys, %hash1 >>+<< %hash2 sums based on keys.) I would assume
> > t
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Date: 2010-11-08 (Mon, 08 Nov 2010)
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Author: TimToady
Date: 2010-11-08 (Mon, 08 Nov 2010)
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Solomon Foster wrote:
> Well, hyperoperators work fine on Hashes, they operate on the values,
> paired up by key if needed. (That is, %hash>>++ doesn't care about
> the keys, %hash1 >>+<< %hash2 sums based on keys.) I would assume
> that Bag should work in the exact same way. Dunno how Set shoul
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Jon Lang wrote:
> Mason Kramer wrote:
>> I'd like to anticipate one objection to this - the existence of the 'hyper'
>> operator/keyword. The hyper operator says, "I am taking responsibility for
>> this particular code block and promising that it can execute out
