Thoughts on improving operators

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

I never wanted it to be a part of an identifier. I wanted it to be an
overloadable operator.
'-' already is an overloadable operator, so it can be put to many uses.
'#' is, as i know, used in the shebang and the line specifier. I don't
know if it will be unambiguous to use it as an operator.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:37 AM, kennytm <kennytm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The whole point was to put the question mark to a better use.
>> I mean, it's used in the ternary operator exclusively.
>> It's such a waste of a token.
>> The question mark logically belongs to bools (which goes good with the
>> ternary operator), but the bools are much more ofter worked with in
>> the form of predicates, so I'd want to make that question mark more
>> useful.
>
> That could be said to '-' which is only used for subtaction. What a waste
> of token.
>
> I'd say as long as the symbol alone is a valid token, it should never be
> part of an identifier, doing else just gonna confuse anybody coming from
> C-like languages, i.e. C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, etc.
>
> -1.
>
> You've got a slightly better chance if you've suggested '#'.
>