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At 08:48 AM 6/29/2011, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
.... Arbitrary custom operators. .... For example, consider math vectors: W = V1 :x: V2 + V3 W = V1:cross_product(V2) + V3 -- less readable a = (V1 [.] V2) / |V1 [.] V2| a = V1:dot_product(V2) / V1:dot_product(V2):abs() -- less readable
Back in the dark ages (ca. 1986 or so) I used a novel little language called ICL that had been design at least partly to enable research into silicon compilation. (This was before VHDL took over the niche.)
One of its interesting features was the ability to write new infix operators by way of a bit of syntax sugar that converted a generic infix operator into a call of a function with two parameters. Specifically, a notation like
a //FOO\\ b
was treated converted to a conventional call like FOO(a,b). I
don't recall how this interacted with precedence rules, or if it
was possible to specify the relative precedence of such function
calls. It did go a long way towards cleaning up situations like
the example above...
Ross Berteig Ross@CheshireEng.com Cheshire Engineering Corp. http://www.CheshireEng.com/