New subject: new operators via backquoting

Jan. 3, 2007


      Chris Rebert wrote:
...
In Haskell,  foo `baz` bar  means  (baz foo bar), which translates to
baz(foo, bar) in Python. This allows Haskell programmers to use
functions as infix operators.
If I recall correctly, in Py3k, enclosing something in backticks will no
longer cause it to be repr()-ed, leaving the backtick without a meaning
in Python.
Perhaps you're not aware of the "best hack of 2005", which works in
current Python and goes a step further by allowing you to even
"override" the operator's delimiter:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/384122

George

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