Ouch. How would a human parse [apple'*'pear] If this doesn't immediately scan as [ (*') (apple') (pear) ] to you (it doesn't to me) then maybe allowing ' in infix operators may not be the best thing. John Meacham wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:01:07AM -0500, Cale Gibbard wrote:
I also like this idea. Retaining the ability to treat selection as a function easily is quite important, and this meets that criterion nicely. Also, in which case does this cause a program to break? It seems that you're only reinterpreting what would be unterminated character literals.
Ah, you are right. for some reason I was thinking we allowed identifiers to start with ', but yeah. this seems fully backwards compatable. while we are at it, we should allow ' in infix operators to.
a *' b = almostMultiply a b
John