Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14585 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote: > Can't we have that as a general feature of all operators? > That is: > >my ($x, $y); > >say $x * $y; # prints 1 >say $x + $y; # prints 0 > > It is a cleaver idea to make the operator choose an appropriate > value for a Nothing value. Why having that only

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14585 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-05 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
On Wednesday, 1. October 2008 21:54:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you apply an assignment operator to a protoobject, it is assumed that > you are implementing some kind of notional "reduction" to an accumulator > -variable. To that end, the base operator is dropped and a simple > -assignment

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14585 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Oct 1 12:54:11 2008 New Revision: 14585 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: Revision to accumulator semantics so that -= dwims Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/