foreach thoughts
Manu
turkeyman at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 01:13:24 PST 2014
On 14 January 2014 19:09, Jakob Ovrum <jakobovrum at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 January 2014 at 09:06:23 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>
> It's common to overload tokens in programming languages, and it's usually
>> only a problem for beginners who aren't used to the particular language's
>> choice of overloads yet (Ruby is good example of a language with rather
>> extreme token reuse) - humans are pretty good at context-sensitive parsing.
>> From a character-by-character perspective it's particularly common, with
>> the bitwise shift operators having nothing to do with comparisons, bitwise
>> xor having nothing to do with exponents etc.
>>
>
> BTW, I am not implying Manu is a beginner, I suspect he had something more
> specific in mind when he mentioned the instantiation syntax.
>
Thank you... I was going to comment, but I restrained myself ;)
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