From: "Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Operators -> unit analysis
Date: 2000/01/06
Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3874D0BE.82F04763@Raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 850jiq$mad$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison wrote:
>
> In article <387383D0.4EA02E95@earthlink.net>,
> Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Terry Sikes wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > One thing I'd like to see in both languages is the ability to use a
> > > set of non-reserved Unicode symbols for operator overloading, to
> > > disambiguate with the normal operator symbols.
>
> > I don't insist on unicode, but I would also like more operators that
> > could be overloaded.
>
> How would you decide where to place them in the precidence hierarchy?
> Having recently built a couple of packages around overloaded operators,
> I found that getting the correct precidence for the various new
> operators I defined is at least as important as the appropriateness of
> the chosen operator symbol to the task. You don't want to end up in a
> situation where you have to use parenthesis in counter-intuitive places
> to work around the precidence rules.
>
How about a representation clause which defines the precedence
of a custom operator to that of another. Something like ...
for "union"'precedence use "+";
for "intersection"'precedence use "*";
--
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"
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1999-12-23 0:00 Ada Brijesh
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada tmoran
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
1999-12-28 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1999-12-31 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Charles Hixson
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Jon Jensen
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Greg Martin
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada reason67
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Operators -> unit analysis Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris [this message]
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Operator precedence--was " Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Brian Rogoff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
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2000-01-08 0:00 Operators -> Unit Analysis mfeldman
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