I had actually suggested On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 10:59:48 AM UTC-4, François Fayard wrote: > > I tend to think as brackets as containers for things. That's why I am not > a big fan. > > What do you think of string1 ~ string2 ? >
I had actually suggested that... I still think it is a good idea, but I think some other packages already pre-empted it's use as a binary operator (in a way that didn't really make much sense to me - I'd suggest that DataFrames not use ~, and use ~ for string concatenation. It is very troubling to me that packages are overloading single characters, in such a way that those cannot be used for the core language, (without breaking those packages) (if they overload it ONLY using their own types, that's another issue entirely, as the compiler could still disambiguate) Scott > On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 4:54:52 PM UTC+2, Scott Jones wrote: >> >> I just remembered, it is the inequality operator in SQL... probably not a >> good idea to use it! >> >> You don't like have `[]` as an infix operator? (not `[a b]`!) >> >> Scott >> >
