[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Dynamic array extensions

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 03/06/18 14:30, Ryan Joseph wrote:
>> On Jun 3, 2018, at 9:07 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:> > But nobody + an item to their item list. The operator is "+" not "add".
> What other operators could be used then? There’s only so many characters on the keyboard after all.
> My only interest is because it’s fast to type and looks nice. Swift allows you to overload any operator in the unicode set so we could make up our own crazy stuff. :)
> list • 1; // list.Add(1);

All of the predefined ones have the problem of clashing with arithmetic 
use in numeric vectors. I'd note that Perl uses . but my preference 
would be _ (followed by whitespace, or at least not by something that 
would make it look like a variable name).

People with deeply masochistic tendencies might appreciate the link 
below, if unavailable Google might have a cache.

http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/APL.html

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