From: "Randy W. Sims" <ml-ruby@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T05:48:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

Charles Hixson wrote:

> | .< 1 + 3, 5 * 2, 6 / 3 >. .<n21, n22, n23>. .<n31, n32, n33>. | .*. M

A perfect example of why free-form-operators are a bad idea. ;-)

No offense intended. It's just that custom notations are not obvious to 
readers/maintainers of the code. Also, adding such flexibility to the 
parser means it is probably less capable of recognizing and diagnosing 
errors. Then there is the problem of clashes when multiple extensions 
try to define the same ops for entirely different operations.

Regards,
Randy.