[Python-ideas] Infix functions

[Greg Ewing]

Andrew Barnert wrote:
> The Numeric community wanted this as a way of defining new mathematical
>operators. ... you could solve the problem easily with infix functions:
> 
>     m `cross` n
>     m `dot` n

For me that totally misses one of the main points of
infix operators, which is that they're *concise*. There's
little advantage in writing the above rather than

    cross(m, n)
    dot(m, n)

-- 
Greg