On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 9:15 AM Jeremiah Vivian nohackingofkrowten@gmail.com wrote:
Using the caret as a prefix unary operator would require changes in python grammar. For now, stick to implementing existing operators. But the rest of the ideas are good though.
You may need to get your sensors tuned up, as not one of those ideas was intended to be taken seriously.
We do not need to find meanings for every operator, especially not completely arbitrary ones. Mathematicians and programmers both extend operators to new meanings, but only where it makes sense. For instance, you might interpret multiplication as repeated addition ("3 times 5 means 5 plus 5 plus 5"), and then logically interpret string-times-integer multiplication the same way ("3 times spam means spam plus spam plus spam"), and Python indeed agrees with that:
3 * "spam"
'spamspamspam'
But if you can't justify it with something like that, then it's usually a bad idea. Unary plus meaning ord() has no justification from mathematics or other parts of Python (or, if it does, I haven't heard them), so it doesn't give any reason for being.
Of course, it's also possible that your entire thread here is *itself* a parody, in which case, I apologise for not noticing it.
ChrisA