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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Compiler
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On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:24:33 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Or perhaps Robert Dewar's suggestion to reserve one punctuation
> symbol not currently in the language for user defined operator
> overloading might help, like "$"? Or, since $ is used in some
> preprocessors, one symbol that is wisely picked from the set
> of symbols available in ISO 10646. Just one.

Huh, Georg, you were so happy about Unicode. Now you miss such an excellent
opportunity to use the "advantages" of! There are whole lotta code
positions to grab. I vote for "voiceless central-plus-lateral alveolar
fricative" (U+02AA) for that purpose. Such operators qualify as a speech
pathology, I think. (:-))

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