Message-ID: <fbb1f20f7e191ad81689ea258f9162b7@leeds.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-03-03T10:21:26Z
From: Yan Wong
Subject: Simple suggestion for improvement
In-Reply-To: <q1od21tge7fg9g1ab1dd36pj6vo06sfmtu@4ax.com>
On 3 Mar 2005, at 10:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> That's not a bad suggestion, but it might not be trivial to implement.
> Right now the "?" is an operator that is parsed like other operators
> such as "+": it becomes a function call . To have "??" mean something
> special would mean changes to the parser, or a special case to the
> .helpForCall function that the "?" function calls.
OK, I can see that. Adding another operator might be seen as too great
a change to consider "trivial". But the second way (changing the
function) seems a little "hacky" to me. Anyway, it is just a suggestion
that would save me (and others) some typing time.
Thanks for replying to my original post,
Yan