Re: Function calls [was: Lua and Neko comparison]

["Alex Queiroz" <asandroq@...>]

Hallo,

On 9/29/06, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> Not all means of "extending" languages (in the sense you're using here)
> are bad; many of them aren't, in fact.  Operator overloading can be
> abused (and frequently is), but it isn't defining new tokens and
> precedences; I think this is at a new level.

    This is not really new. In Haskell you can define new operators,
which are infix functions, and specify their precedence and
associativity:

infixl 10 ($=)  -- infix operator, associates left, precedence 10
($=) :: Int -> Int -> Int
a $= b = a + b

--
-alex
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