Re: languages which allow the introduction of new operators

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From: Stephen J Bevan
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:32

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In article <BxLxqu.96C@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

   Some of these allow some flexibility in expression syntax.  But how
   many of these could conveniently unpack a floating point number into
   its exponent and mantissa?  In particular, could you write

	   exponent, mantissa =.U float

Since you didn't explain the notation, I assume that ".U" means "unpack"
(why the "."?).  Therefore, in Haskell :-

  let (exponent, mantissa) = unpack float
  in ...

bevan

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