[Bro-Dev] set and vector operators

[Robin Sommer]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 22:19 -0700, you wrote:

> Now there's no problem, since the lexer only recognizes "&attrkeyword"
> as a unit, with no whitespace allowed.

Good idea, sounds right. And in case it did turn out to be
problematic, we could still go the way of adding all as keywords
later.

> How does that sound?

Sounds good to me, the bitwise operations will be great to have, too.

Just one more thing still: I'm actually feeling pretty strongly
against having multiple different operators for the same operation
(set union, set addition/removal). I just see that as leading to
confusion: scripts will inconsistently use on or the other, people
will have different preferences which version to prefer; they may not
even remember the other one. And we'd end up having to explain why
there are two versions, without having much of a great explanation
("one is ugly" doesn't sound great to me :-). Is it just me feeling
that way?

Robin

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