The PEP Tristan posted offers a pretty compelling case for distinguishing elementwise operators from objectwise ones (although not for this dot syntax per se, they went with a ~-prefix): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0225/
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Tristan Zajonc wrote: > >> Sorry, at most I'm only proposing every *existing* operator prefixed by >> ., not new operators. So things like >> .+, ./, .*, .-., .%, .==, .!=, .>, .<, etc. These would be called dot >> operators. This is all that's required by the >> technical computing use case. >> > > Why is the dot needed, though? > > /be > > ______________________________**_________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/es-discuss<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> >
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