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• Operator overloading to describe pipelines (Score:1)

  by arc (5008)

  I looked into doing something very much along those lines some time ago (during OSCON::EU 2006 in Brussels, I think).

  One of the problems is that callers which do use warnings will get lots of “Useless use of bitwise or (|) in void context” warnings. I considered whether this sort of thing would alleviate the problem:

  package Whatever::Name::It::Gets;
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  sub import {
      warnings->unimport(qw<void>);
  }

  It would, through the surprising scope of *^H, but ther
  • Re:Operator overloading to describe pipelines (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2009.02.16 19:06 (#67417) Homepage Journal

    I wouldn’t particularly care about the redirection operators. I would rather let the desugared API handle the more complex cases than try to stuff them all into symbols.

    The warning is an annoyance, I agree.

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