[Python-ideas] Infix matrix-multiply, but not general infix operators?

[Henshaw, Andy]

From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+andy.henshaw=gtri.gatech.edu at python.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Furman

>On 03/20/2014 08:40 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote:
>>
>> Also, imagine what it would look like to chain these:
>>
>>      spam spam eggs baked beans spam spam
>>
>> Maybe the parser can figure out that the spam, baked, and spam are  
>> operators and the spam, eggs, beans, and spam are operands, but what  
>> hope does any human have?
>
> Why would spam be able to be both a variable and an operator?  
> Hmm, perhaps because of the first-class citizen thing -- so the
> leading grit says "make it work" and without it is just passing it around.

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