Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-08 Thread raptor
I find underscore also a little bit mesleading, but at least will not broke my code (I was never using underscore in identifiers, I'm using Upercassing i.e. $yetAnotherVar ) :") = iVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] = PS. it is time new keyboard to be invented :")

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-07 Thread Ted Ashton
Thus it was written in the epistle of Erik Lechak, > > I guess my biggest complaint was that underscore would be the only single > character operator that would be in danger of being lumped into the variable > name. I forgot about x . I use it all the time. If x has that > constraint why n

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Erik Lechak
Bryan, I guess my biggest complaint was that underscore would be the only single character operator that would be in danger of being lumped into the variable name. I forgot about x . I use it all the time. If x has that constraint why not the underscore. I worked at a place where varia

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 06 October 2001 03:47 pm, Erik Lechak wrote: > Thank you for the info. I am more engineer than computer scientist, > so please excuse the ignorance behind these questions. No problem. > > > Except that the operator truly is simply an underscore. But it's also a > > valid iden

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Erik Lechak
Thanks for the info, Bryan, Thank you for the info. I am more engineer than computer scientist, so please excuse the ignorance behind these questions. > > Except that the operator truly is simply an underscore. But it's also a > valid identifier character, so where it may be confused w

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 06 October 2001 04:58 am, Erik Lechak wrote: > a) I just plain don't like to use the "_" key. Hitting the "shift" key > and the "-" key just does not feel right. I call this the > Huffman-Carpel-Tunnel coded argument. That is to say that the more > often an operator is used, make it

Re: Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Jeremy Howard
Erik Lechak wrote: > 2) RFC 082: Arrays: Apply operators element-wise in a list context > (hyper operators) > and > 3) Special variable representing index of array in foreach structure > "$#" maybe (not in apocolypse3, I think) > Hi Eric. Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately it's a little ear

Hyper-operators and Underscore

2001-10-06 Thread Erik Lechak
Hello all, I have been using Perl for years. It is the language of choice for most of my needs. This is my first time posting. I have read Apocalypse 3 and many of your responses. Issues: 1) Binary _or string concatenation 2) RFC 082: Arrays: Apply operators element-wise in a