[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Dynamic array extensions

[Joao Schuler]

If I can, I would like to vote for "&" instead of "+". As I use Free Pascal
with math (neural networks), I would vote for "&" with concatenation and
"||" with "union" (in the case it's ever required).

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:24 AM, Roger Rivero Jr. (SAMPA WebMaster) <
sampa at caonao.cu> wrote:

> Dear Sir:
>
> I don´t like your way of answering. Period.
>
> Mathematical operators on matrices (+, -, *, ~, etc.) have being defined
> centuries ago, and all the scientific community uses the same conventions
> on them. It´s not proper that somebody now would like to redefine the
> conventions on his own will, regarless of the user´s community opinions.
>
> If you like an operator for concatenation, which is A WHOLE NEW FEATURE,
> please use a different or invented operator. You can use concatenator
> operarators borrowed from PHP ("."), Excel - VB ("&"), or invent your own
> one ( +.   +~   +*   etc)
>
> I firmly oppose to any of your intentions (define the + operator for
> concatenation and allow user defined operators to take precedence). It
> doesn´t make sense. It´s not logical.
>
> Thank you for hearing at me, and my apologies for my rough language.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Roger Rivero
>
> El 02/06/2018 a las 8:10, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal escribió:
>
> denisgolovan <denisgolovan at yandex.ru> schrieb am Sa., 2. Juni 2018, 10:28:
>
>> Yes, I strongly support removing that functionality in favor of user
>> operator overloads or vector-compatible way.
>>
>
> To clear something up: this new operator will definitely not be removed.
> Period.
>
> What might be done however (and what I had planned) is that existing
> overloads of the "+"-operator take precedence to the internal operator.
>
> Though I wouldn't mind introducing a syntax that can be used to force a
> element wise operation on a array. This way one wouldn't need to do the
> overload for the array, but the compiler would pick the operator of the
> element type instead.
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
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