[Python-ideas] Operator as first class citizens -- like in scala -- or yet another new operator?

[Cody Piersall]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:32 AM Yanghao Hua <yanghao.py at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have experimented by adding two new python operators, left arrow: <-
> and right arrow ->, which users can define their behaviors. and it
> still looks like kind of the non-blocking assignment operators in
> hardware description languages (e.g. verilog <=). Also it could be
> used to build data flows like a -> b -> c -> d -> ...

I think the idea for using the left arrow is a non-starter, since it's
already valid Python syntax to write

x <- 3

today. ("-" being a unary operator and all).

That said, I would be really happy to have a clean way to write HDL in
Python, so good luck!  Time to check out MyHDL...

Cody