Nick Coghlan wrote: > Using '@' would now be fairly counterintuitive, given that symbol's > association with decorators.
It would be very disappointing if @ were now considered too "polluted" by association with decorators to be used for anything else, since it would mean we have lost both a potential prefix operator and a potential infix operator in one go. Personally I don't think there would be any confusion. > I wonder if something could be done with the idea of using additional symbol > pairs for operators. Then something like '*.' could added for the vector > scalar product (aka the dot product), and '*~' could be added for matrix > multiplication. No, no, please, no!!! Things like this were debated at length last time round, and were found to be extremely ugly and hard to read. > However, I also wonder if that way lies madness ;) Indeed, it does. Even brief exposure to expressions containing *. operators has been found to cause severe mental derangement in laboratory rats. We don't want to go there. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
