From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T13:47:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

On Saturday 09 October 2004 12:27 am, Jim Weirich wrote:
| trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
| > Spaces b/c important, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. A rule that
| > operator "on top of operator" requires a space solves problem. So
| >
| >   '!1' or '! 1'
| >
| > is fine, but two in a row must be
| >
| >   '! !1' or '! ! 1', not '!!1'
|
| This is fine, but at this point you are making incompatible changes to
| Ruby.  I don't want user defined operators nearly so much that I would
| want to break existing code.

Sure. I understand. But I wonder how often two operators are used back to 
back? I imagine that the most common case is !-1. And actually I think - + 
should probably be considered literal "numeral" chars when in front of other 
such chars always. Just the same, given the infrequency, I don't think it's 
out of the question, unless I've over looked some common idioms. Think of 
any?

T.