From: Paul Haahr <paul@paulhaahr.com>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: $^t
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:37:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8XBpTIaE1V@dmul.paulhaahr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109040316.f843GRP17441@merton.aus.deuba.com>
Callum Gibson wrote
> FWIW, I think $^t is more logical since it conserves special chars, even
> if it reverses the sense of the ^ operator.
I don't think it reverses the sense at all. $^ was originally intended
to mean ``repeated application of the ^ operator on a variable.''
For what it's worth, that syntax in Byron's implementation appears to
date from early 1991:
From: byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis)
To: haahr@adobe.com
Subject: list flattening
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 17:55:45 CST
is now in as an operator. yip yip.
(I also have a drop of rc from half an hour before that message which
doesn't include $^, so we can be fairly precise about its timing.)
--p
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2001-09-04 2:43 $^t Byron Rakitzis
2001-09-04 4:16 ` $^t Callum Gibson
2001-09-05 4:37 ` Paul Haahr [this message]
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2001-09-03 9:20 $^t Matt
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