Operators for everything (was Re: Operators for matrix)

[Timothy H. Keitt]

R (www.r-project.org) uses '%' as in A %*% B.  Might be nice to
standardize.

Tim

Bill Whiten wrote:
> 
> In article <3977AF5E.552F4F42 at my.signature>, Greg Ewing <see at my.signature>
> wrote:
> > Python with its overloadable operators can be thought of
> > as a meta-language for creating domain-specific languages.
> > But the number of operators is too restricted for it to
> > be really good in this role. Operator overloading feels like
> > something tacked on as an afterthought rather than a
> > serious feature. I don't think it's unreasonable
> > to consider whether this situation could be improved.
> 
> I would prefer the normal oprerators plus an escape character followed by
> additional characters to define new operators eg @+ @div etc.
> 
> Regards,
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