in reply to Re^6: Split tab-separated file into separate files, based on column name (tangent = open on demand => stream-like)
in thread Split tab-separated file into separate files, based on column name
Operator overloading is great, I'm not against it per se.
But it's a two-edged sword which should be handled with care.
Overloading an operator because it looks like another syntax is not a good idea ( here >> )
A good example for overloading are set operations, because the logic is "compatible".
- X * Y intersection
- X + Y join
- X - Y difference
- - X complement
Bitwise ~ | & ^ etc. might be another option tho ... and the analogy between sets and bit vectors might help.
update
Found Set::Scalar which has a good set of overloaded operators.
Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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