At first, it made sense to me to get the bit-wise operators finally grouped together and also get the logical operators finally grouped together. Plus, I'd been recently surprised by the rather tight binding of !.

But ! is also useful for extracting a Boolean value from a possibly-non-Boolean value. And since we don't have operators for "is logically equivalent" nor for "is not logically equivalent", it can be convenient to write, for example: if(  ! $expr == ! $cond  ) { Also, we do have negated versions of all of the comparison operators so there isn't much need for: if(  ! ( $value == $expr )  ) { So I realized that this change wasn't going to fly.

But the main point of my proposal was the bit-wise operators (hence the title). I snuck the change to ! into the table but didn't mention it anywhere. And now I'm sneaking it back out. q-: Sorry for the confusion.

It does make some (though not a lot of) sense to put ! in with the other unary operators.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re2: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess? by tye
in thread Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess? by tye

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