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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Operators -> unit analysis
Date: 2000/01/08
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In article <38762D53.A9B2CC15@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:

> but as soon as the meanings of the operators becomes even
> slightly obscure or non-standard, the value to the reader
> drops precipitously.


An idea that Jean Ichbian and I pushed, but did not manage
to get sufficient support for, was to have one user defined
user operator, using the pillow symbol (also called the
currency conversion operator), to be used to represent un-noisy
"almost implicit" conversion operations (the kind of thing we
use unary plus for now).


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