[Bro-Dev] set and vector operators
Vern Paxson
vern at icir.org
Wed Apr 25 10:58:15 PDT 2018
> That's very similar to what python does, except they use & and | instead of && and ||.
> I think they do that because 'set or' is closer to 'bitwise or' than 'logical or'
Yeah, I thought of that, but Bro currently doesn't have any '&' or '|'
operators, which makes me reluctant to add them just for this. '&' is
particularly problematic, as it would introduce ambiguity as to whether
"&redef" means the redef attribute, or "use the 'and' operator on the value
of the variable 'redef'". We'd have to add a bunch of reserved words
to accommodate this.
> They also use ^ for symmetric difference.
(same here re being a new operator)
Vern
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