in reply to Periodic Table of the Perl 6 Operators

Thats pretty creative. Bloody fine teaching aid, choice of colours and so forth. Chemistry analogy is weak metaphorically but wtf, the intent eclipses the form. I like file operators in the transuranics, but noble vectors should be the last group (with the quasi ops in the halogens). Group-wise I would have gone with the classical form most CS students learn,
1) bit ops
2) arithmetic ops
3) list and string ops
4) code ops (subs, functions, classes)
which ascend in abstraction from the machine level. I'm printing it out now. Makes me look forward to Perl6 :)
Andy
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Re: Re: Periodic Table of the Perl 6 Operators
by Ovid (Cardinal) on May 27, 2004 at 16:06 UTC

    Chemistry analogy is weak metaphorically...

    This was pointed out on the Perl 6 language list as one person asked what was "periodic" about the table and another replied "We hope it will be periodically updated. :)"

    Cheers,
    Ovid

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