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| Subject: | Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation? |
| From: | Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:11:30 -0700 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:People use nonadic functions (nonary operators? where non = 0, not 9) without parens, and get themselves into trouble for it.I believe the word you're looking for is '"nullary". Alternately, the word is spelled "niladic", which also has the advantage of looking like "monadic", "dyadic", etc. -- Darren Duncan |
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