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Article #2308RE: Why no ** operator in Modula2?
From: UNBCIC
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 19:37
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 19:37
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=> Someone opined in a Dr. Dobbs Journal many years back, that one obvious
=> addition to Modula-2 (or any other language, for that matter) is a keyword
=> like OPERATOR, or something, which would let you define thingies which you
=> use to perform operations on variables, like **.
There are MANY languages with this features. In first place, functional
languages, like LISP or SCHEME, doesn't have infixed operators, and treats all
operators the same way. There are other languages working this way (Forth, for
example, although it's possible to create infixed operators in Forth). Object
Oriented Languages, like Smalltalk, usually let you create infixed operators.
In fact, in Smalltalk it's possible to take three or more elements.
(8-DCS)
Daniel C. Sobral
UNBCIC@BRFAPESP.BITNET
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