17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
8:59 p.m.
On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
... Yes, yes, yes. I'd rather use a different operator for record selection. For instance the colon (:). Yes, I know it is the 'cons' operator for a certain concrete data type that implements stacks (so called 'lists'). However I am generally opposed to wasting good operator and function names as well as syntactic sugar of any kind on a /concrete/ data type, and especially not for stacks aka lists.
Would you be happier if it were the "yield" operator for iterators? Yours lazily, Jan-Willem Maessen
Just my 2 cent.
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