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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~davecross/Number-Fraction-2.00/lib/Number/Fraction.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~davecross/Number-Fraction-2.00/lib/Number/Fraction.pm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Don’t know if this is relevant, but Number::Fraction was conceived as a demonstration of operator overloading.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Southampton-pm [mailto:southampton-pm-bounces+duncan.garland=ntlworld.com@pm.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>James Raspass<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 March 2014 20:12<br><b>To:</b> southampton-pm@pm.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Southampton-pm] A case for custom infix operators<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Inspired by this in Python - <a href="http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238">http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I wanted to see how easily an integer dividing operator could be added to Perl.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This implementation is a bit of a hack. I'm sure Tim'll appreciate the blessed scalar ref :P<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What do people think? It would be nice to have first class support for custom operators in Perl, there has been some discussion on P5P but it never went anywhere - <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205547.html">http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205547.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>[jraspass@gibson ~]$ ./<a href="http://div.pl">div.pl</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3.33333333333333<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3.33333333333333<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3.33333333333333<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3.33333333333333<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>PS we should really get an IRC channel :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>James<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>