[m-dev.] Operators

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Dec-1999, Michael Day <mcda at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > > Will there be any future support for operator declarations?
> > 
> > Perhaps.
> 
> Could the mechanism that allows + and - and other built in operators to be
> declared be extended to cover arbitrary user defined operators?

Yes, it could, but doing so is not trivial.
The main difficulty is the interaction with the module system.

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