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On Jun 5, 2014 4:18 AM, "Coroutines" <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a related note, sometimes I wish Lua allowed putting an operator in
> place of where a function would be expected. Something like:
> table.sort(some_table, <)
>
> I don't know how that could be made less confusing from the parsers'
> perspective, though. I think you can do this in Haskell with \+ to
> refer to the function of the operator itself.
Sometimes I feel the need for this in Lua, but I'd *guess* it adds too much complexity to the parser for something that only a small subset of us lunatics use.
As for Haskell, it doesn't have operators per se, but everything is a function and haskell functions can be named with non alphanumeric characters. Besides, prefixed funcions can be in fixed using bacticks (5 `div` 2) and infixed ones can be passed around using parenthesis (lfold1 (+) mylist).