From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-12-14T08:42:03+09:00
Subject: Re: additional methods for Array + custom operators

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:33:55 +0900, KONTRA Gergely wrote:
> On 1214, David Garamond wrote:
>> Array#chunk(n) -> anArray
>> split an array into chunks, each containing at most n elements.
> Maybe Array#%() can be a synonim (% - the modulo operator)

This isn't completely intuitive, to me. (Yes, I get where it comes from; 
it's still not completely intuitive.)

> How about enabling the user to define custom operators? Like in sml and
> prolog? (The charset of the operators is given, and one can define
> operators like <<< -+- whatever...)
> 
> What do you think?

I think that Matz has demurred on this matter; I also think that it would 
make parsing unnecessarily difficult. I would personally find it more useful 
to be able to specify argument sides, e.g.:

  def mul(left<x>, right<y>); x * y ; end

  x mul y

But even that is of limited utility.

-austin
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software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.12.13
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