From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T00:14:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: new operator: '<-' (for assignments)

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:41:21 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:20:27 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
>> [request for new operator <-]
>> Array, String, and Hash use #replace to do this.
> Perhaps, but I'm looking for an operator because:
> 1) it's shorter
> 2) the intent of '<-' is pretty clear (in fact it's often used for
>    this in pseudocode)

I don't think that it's clear; I use <- in pseudocode to represent
assignment, not replacement.

If your class doesn't need <=, you could redefine that, though
you'll get a "void context" warning.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.03.21 at 10:12:18