From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T08:16:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

Hi,

In message "Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch"
    on Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:21:08 +0900, Markus <markus@reality.com> writes:

|> * This patch makes difficult to add new operators in the language in
|>   the future.  For example, I might feel like to add '->' behave as
|>   lambda as in Perl6.

|     I don't think the patch would make it any harder to add operators
|in the future--any more than user defined methods make it harder to add
|methods.  In a way, it might make it easier, since they could be written
|in ruby.

As long as it's a binary operator.  I'm thinking something more like
syntax.  For example, Perl6's -> syntax works as "-> x, y {...}",
which would, I think, conflict with any usage of user defined ->
operator.

							matz.