[VPM] perl 5 and hyper operators on lists

[Peter Scott]

At 11:30 PM 12/6/2006, Darren Duncan wrote:
> >Can Hyper operators be implemented in perl 5?..and will this still offer
> >better performance than loops?
>
>They can probably be implemented in Perl 5, but doing it faster will
>undoubtedly require an XS implementation.  That said, the v6.pm
>implementation of Perl 6 over Perl 5 will have to make hyper-ops work
>somehow.

The current ruling on P5P is that there will be no new operators added 
to Perl 5.  // and ~~ have already been aded to 5.8.10-to-be, but 
that's it.  Of course, never say Never...

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