Newbie proposal: operator backquoting

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:46:19PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 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
>

As *I* understood this, foo - 1 would not change.  In fact except for
the new `varsym` and `consym` forms, the grammer would not change.  How
would this break existing code?

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

Ian: what's DMR?

Stefan