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Subject: Re: Proposal for user defined operaters.
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From: moselecw@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (C.W. Moseley)
Date: 14 May 92 21:56:51 +1200
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That sounds a lot like BASIC line numbering strategey to me! Another hack to try to make a (dare I say it) poorly implemented idea function (sort of). Still, better than the `overloading' in something like SML (function language)

In article <2A0EC91A.7A06@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to ruprecht@informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Nick Ruprecht):
> >Precedence:  Is "10" higher or lower than, say, multiplication?  You
> >have to specify the precedence numbers for all the existing operators.
> 
> That's easy to solve: use strings and the collating order.  If you
> want something between "a" and "b", call it "am".