Re: [q-lang-users] New stuff in cvs: multichar ops, views

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> > (I always get bitten by unary minus in Q, still.)
> 
> Care to explain why? I'd say that its usage is rather straightforward.
> The precedence is the same as in Pascal (IIRC), all you have to remember
> is that '-' in sections always denotes *binary* minus so to denote the
> unary minus function you have to write 'minus'.

I always forget that -2 is the application of minus to 2 rather than a
constant, so I write things like "foo -2", which then turns out to be
"(foo -) 2".

> As a first exercise, I just comitted some changes which turn Complex
> into an ADT with the virtual constructor (:+). So the constant i now
> prints as 0:+1.

I don't like that much.  I suppose there is no way to make 0+1*i the
constructor/view?  I guess not, since Q is eager.

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