in reply to Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess?

I do see ways of simplifying Perl's precedence table from 24 levels down to 18 levels, albeit with some damage to C compatibility in the less frequently used ops. More on that later.

Larry Wall in Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good

-- Abigail

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(tye)Re3: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess?
by tye (Sage) on Jun 04, 2001 at 18:55 UTC

    And right before that:

    We'll discuss precedence reform under Apocalypse 3,

    ...so something even more drastic is planned and I have a while to wait before I hear the details. Thanks.

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