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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Operators -> unit analysis
Date: 2000/01/05
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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.

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