Newbie proposal: operator backquoting

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:14:55AM +0400, Dusty wrote:
>
> foo '-'1  has two arguments, (-) and 1,                while  foo -1  has one argument, -1

You mean
    foo '-'1
is parsed as
    (-) foo 1
and
    foo -1
is parsed as
    foo (-1)
right?

What would
    foo - 1
mean? If it means
    (-) foo 1
then putting the extra space in looks a lot nicer to me than using
backquotes. If it means
    foo (-1)
then I think this will break a lot of code, and is also very
unintuitive.


Thanks
Ian, a member of the "Out with DMR, defaulting, unary negation and n+k
patterns" club