[PEP draft 2] Adding new math operators
Huaiyu Zhu
hzhu at localhost.localdomain
Tue Aug 8 21:59:55 EDT 2000
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:26:22 +0100, Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:
>
>Another thing that should be borne in mind is that we'll be moving to
>unicode so that other operator notations may in fact be more feasible in
>future eg the symbol character set may have an existence in unicode.
>That would make the symbology easier, but not how to associate such
>symbols with python code.
Three points:
- IMO, adding unicode operators to Python is quite futher away - probably at
least two years down the road (availability, acceptance, compatibility,
convenience, necessity, etc, etc).
- Somebody mentioned that it would not be difficult to make translations
from ~+ to a unicode character if and when that's included.
- When that finally happens, then naming them would indeed be an issue. But
that's a much more extensive extension than proposed here.
BTW, I only said that ~op is a clear winner in the meta+op form. Any better
candidates?
Huaiyu
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