30 Sep
2002
30 Sep
'02
2:39 a.m.
Gareth McCaughan
- Rational numbers. $r"123/234" - Regular expressions. $/"foo.*bar" - Dates and times. $t"2002-09-27 11:38" - Hostnames and ports. $h"www.google.com:80"
This strikes me as ugly. There doesn't seem to be much, if any, syntactical advantage over using a constructor: Rat("123/234") Regex("foo.*bar") Date("2002-09-27 11:38") Port("www.google.com:80") These look cleaner and easier to read to me. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+