[Python-Dev] Re: ANN: PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:48 PM 9/14/04 -0700, Tim Hochberg wrote:
>Again with Greg's proposal one could write 'a and b' for this. Much nicer.
>
>It's not that you couldn't make numarrays short circuit. In the expression 
>"a and b", if all the elements of a are false, then we can skip evaluating 
>b. I'm just not sure that this is a good idea.

My point is that the idea of using 'and' in order to implement something 
that's *not* short-circuiting seems like a bad idea.  I'd rather see 
array-specific operators added, or some sort of infix notation for 
functions so that you can define custom operators for such specialized usages.