[Python-ideas] Is there a good reason to use * for multiplication?

[Masklinn]

On 2012-10-12, at 23:37 , Ethan Furman wrote:
> 
> In college we dropped the · and just wrote stuff like:
> 
> (x + z)(x - y)
> 
> but we can't do that in Python because they are function calls.

Numbers could be callable with __call__ aliasing to a
multiplication…