Re: RFC 82 (v3) Arrays: Apply operators element-wise in a list context

>>>>> "NT" == Nathan Torkington <[email protected]> writes:

NT> Actually, the only refinement I'd like to see is that boolean operators
NT> (==, &&, ||) be excepted from the distributive rule.

NT> This is to permit:

NT>   if (@a == @b)		# shallow comparison

NT> and

NT>   @a = @b || @c;	# @a=@b or @a=@c;	# ish

NT> The math operations are fine to apply to each element.  I have no
NT> problem with those being distributive, but I think || for default
NT> values and == for comparison are too ingrained and they'd be too
NT> useful (as opposed to a distributive || or &&, which is much less
NT> useful).


Then how would one get the distributed effect? An apply operator?

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