I think that there is very big misunderstanding. My point of view is both a mathematical and a programmagical one.

Le 18 mars 2014 20:20, "Nathaniel Smith" <njs@pobox.com> a écrit :

On 18 Mar 2014 17:32, "Christophe Bal" <projetmbc@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is a different situation because / is indeed an hidden multiplication : a/b = a*inv(b). The same is true for + and - : a-b=a+opp(b). What I'm saying is that these operations * and / are indeed of the very same j-kind.
>
> This is not the same for * and @.

// (floordiv) isn't equivalent to a multiplication, but it is also at the same level. << and >> aren't inverses, but they are at the same level. 'in' and 'is' are not even the same type (they have totally different requirements on their right argument) but they are at the same level. Whatever choice we make needs to be something we can justify, and our justification should probably not imply that all of python's other operators are wrong ;-).

-n


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