text_combined: larry wall larrywallorg thu aug 07 2008 050441am 0500 john dlugosz wrote adverbs reduction operators lt lc abc decreasing order dont think thatll fly reduce operators parsed single tokens disambiguate array composers already 7000 reduce operators currently every basic infix operator adds 88 different possible reduce operators could cut somewhat removed texas quotes language adding possible adverbs completely blow lexer water put another way parse something like example someone adds sub lt without resorting arbitrarily complex backtracking way see distinguish require array composers contain space since reduce operators may think thats kinda tacky example still would work unless changed ltlc comes point better force user say infix infixassuminglc lt_lc b c larry thu 07 aug 2008 170450 0700 another adverb operator question