[Python-Dev] PEP 465: A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication

[Larry Hastings]

On 04/07/2014 02:47 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com 
> <mailto:njs at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
>     > It would be nice to support A × B too, because it's much more
>     > readable. You can configure a keyword to write arbitrary characters.
>     > For example, on Linux you can write × using "Compose x x" if you
>     > configured the Compose key. Or sometimes, you can replace "@"
>     with "×"
>     > using your favorite text editor (copy-paste from another script,
>     from
>     > a webpage, or something else).
>
>     Sounds like a pretty major violation of TOOWTDI...
>
>
> Python used to have an alias <> for != and I for one miss <> in 3.x. 
>  I don't think TOOWTDI should be the last word in this debate.

Right, and <> was removed because TOOWTDI.  I am -1**3001 on adding 
redundant non-ASCII operators to the language.  Python != APL.


/arry
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