On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:44 AM Mathew Elman <mathew.el...@ocado.com> wrote:

> Perhaps a more versatile operator would be to introduce a +- operator that
> would return an object with an __eq__ method that checks for equality in
> the tolerance i.e
>
>     a == b +- 0.5
>

This is already valid syntax, because unary minus is a thing. So this is
currently parsed as "a == b + (-0.5)".

Reversing it to use -+ won't work because unary plus is also a thing.
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