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

[Cem Karan]

On Mar 21, 2014, at 10:19 AM, "Henshaw, Andy" <Andy.Henshaw at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote:

> 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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Thanks,
Cem Karan