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Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops

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On Sun Jan 04 16:45:52 2015, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
> * Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2015-01-
> 04T17:40:13]
> > Does anybody currently overload & | ^ ~ for non-numeric uses?  The
> > only use
> > of these I am aware of is by modules like Math::BigInt, etc.
> 
> Yes, although most often I've seen it used for logical purposes, like:
> 
> $newset = $set1 ^ $set2;
> 
> > What I would like to do is just use & for &, leave feature.pm alone,
> > and
> > recommend that & overloads be number-specific regardless of perl
> > version.
> > That seems the simplest and most straightforward approach overall.
> 
> I think this is probably correct, but I want to think about it a lot
> more than
> the 45s I just did.  Hopefully other people will have interesting
> things to say
> before I do that. ;)
I have just pushed a new sprout/sbit branch that implements the entire feature, including documentation and tests.  It just lacks a note in overload.pm explaining the dual nature of qw(& | ^ ~).
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Father Chrysostomos
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• [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Ricardo Signes
• Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Ricardo Signes
• Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #123466] Overloading for number-specific bitwise ops by Ricardo Signes