Re: [boost] Interest for a perl6-like-junctions-class?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-05 10:06:41

Rob Stewart <stewart_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> > What about user-supplied predicates?  You can't use infix
>> > notation then.
>> 
>>   all_of(a)._(frobnicates, any_of(b))
>> 
>>   all_of(a)._,frobnicates, any_of(b)
>> 
>>   all_of(a)._ %frobnicates%  any_of(b)
>> 
>>   all_of(a)._ |frobnicates|  any_of(b)
>> 
>>   all_of(a)._ <frobnicates>  any_of(b)
>> 
>> (etc)
>
> That gives some notion of infix, but it seems entirely too
> contrived to me.
>
> What about this:
>
>    all_of(a)(frobnicates, any_of(b))
>
> It seems a little better.

I started there, but the placement of parens seems to arbitrary and
unbalanced.  Also, the whole point of infix is to get rid of those.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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