Suggestion: prepend a ~ or , to numeric comparison operators Addresses the key concerns: o frees up . o spaces insensitive (though cmp, eq, ...do care about spaces) o using the , instead of ~ would be 1 keystroke on most keyboards o ~ and , visually intuit a string (~ more than ,) o avoids: $foo = "foo" + "$foo" + foo + foo() o easy to differentiate string and numeric ops o doesn't spill over into other syntax changes... (i think) From: Stephen P. Potter [mailto:spp@belgarion.spotter.yi.org] > > Garrett Goebel <garrett@scriptpro.com> whispered: > | Perl 5 Perl 6 > | --------------- --------------- > | -> . > | + + > | . ~+ > | .= ~+= > | ~=+ [and possibly consider] > | eq ~== or eq > | ne ~!= or ne > | gt ~> or gt > | ge ~>= or ge > | lt ~< or lt > | le ~<= or le > | cmp ~<=> or cmp > | > | You can leave aliases for eq, ne, gt... or depreciate them. > | -But leave precedence as is... > It's not bad enough that we're getting a proliferation of trigraph > operators, now you want to add a quadgraph? No thank you. cmp requires typing at least 4 characters too: sort {$a cmp$b} qw(z y x); sort {${a}cmp$b} qw(z y x); It has been suggested to me privately to leave the lettered ops eq, ne, cmp, etc. alone since there is a history behind using lettered ops on strings and symbol ops on numbers. That's fine. You might consider allowing either, or possibly just dropping the trigraphs and/or quadgraphs.Thread Previous