
April 17, 2020
6:30 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:22 PM Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas < python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
What examples can you think of—in English, Python, other popular languages, math notation, whatever—where there’s an infix-operator-like thing and the right token is elided and inferred implicitly? I’m sure there are some, but nothing comes to mind immediately.
I can't think of any either... But there are probably pro- and con- arguments. :-) -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.