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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/10/2012 05:27, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> As a child, I was taught "x" (that's intened as a small cross diagonally
> oriented, not the letter I've used here) for multiplication. Let's
> support that too! It also looks like another character (specifically, a
> lot like the letter "x").
>
> Cheers,
>

Another problem with "x" is actually writing it out correctly on your 
coding sheets for the data preparation team.  IIRC Hagar the Horrible 
had an issue with this as he couldn't get the lines to cross.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.