Unicode operators?
Mel Wilson
mwilson at the-wire.com
Tue Mar 2 15:29:06 EST 2004
In article <c116tu$1ak718$1 at ID-169208.news.uni-berlin.de>,
"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <g2h5dqi002 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>Dan Bishop wrote:
>> There are still three ASCII characters that aren't used in Python:
>> '@', '$', and '?'. I don't see any obvious mathematical meaning for
>> them, though.
>Hmmm... Now that we can have Unicode source, maybe any
>otherwise-unused Unicode punctuation character could be
>allowed as an operator. The corresponding method name
>would be character's Unicode name with double underscores
>attached.
There's a lot of Chinese in Unicode. Very rich symbol
set. Time to re-visit the work of John Searle.
Regards. Mel.
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