Re: A6: Assignment Overloading

2003-03-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:20:28PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: : Luke Palmer wrote: : : >So, now that we have binding, is it possible to overload the : >assignment operator? : : Not really. The problem is that C<&infix:=> is really an operator on : *containers*, not on *values*. So, in order t

Re: A6: Assignment Overloading

2003-03-13 Thread Damian Conway
Luke Palmer wrote: So, now that we have binding, is it possible to overload the assignment operator? Not really. The problem is that C<&infix:=> is really an operator on *containers*, not on *values*. So, in order to overload C<=>, you'll still need to define an appropriate C method on the app