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in reply to Re: My day with Damian Conway
in thread My day with Damian Conway

Why would it have to die? One is a language contruct (or if you want, an operator with 0 operands), the other (the existing operator) is a binary infix operator. There cannot be any ambiguity.

-- Abigail

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Re: Re: My day with Damian Conway
by tye (Sage) on Jun 26, 2001 at 09:06 UTC

    So, if I wasn't sure whether I wanted to use .. or ... as my range operator (because I hadn't recently read up on the differences), I'd just mark that part of the code as unfinished by typing: pre()...post() then later replace it with the correct range operator after I'd had time to do that research. q-:

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