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

From: Martin Bonner (martin.bonner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-18 09:47:11

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From: Rob Stewart [mailto:stewart_at_[hidden]]
Sent: 18 August 2005 15:12
To: boost_at_[hidden]
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Subject: Re: [boost] Interest for a perl6-like-junctions-class?

> 
> You can omit spaces to make it look right to you.  I dislike
> omitting spaces around operators.  
But semantically they're not operators, they're punctuators to create a user
defined operator

> So, without the internal
> spaces, do you like any of them?
> 
>    if (any_of(...) <<some_predicate()>> 5)... // 1
Stands out visually, but that's ANOTHER overloading of >> and <<
> 
>    if (any_of(...) <some_predicate()> 5)... // 2
This is going to get messy as you say with templates (which would FORCE a
space in).

>    if (any_of(...) ^some_predicate()^ 5)... // 3
> 
>    if (any_of(...) /some_predicate()/ 5)... // 4
These two are visually too light-weight for my taste.  

Why not:
    if (any_of(...) *some_predicate()* 5)... 
or
    if (any_of(...) %some_predicate()% 5)... 
?

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