Arbitrary operator symbols (Re: Operators for matrix: current choices)

[Paul Prescod]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
> The main problem I see with any kind of scheme requiring
> new operators to be defined before use is how you control
> their scope.
> ...

Tim warned against spending a lot of energy on a runtime operator
definition mechanism. He's not Guido but he felt pretty strongly that he
was channelling Guido when he said: "Just choose some operators for
matrix multiplication and do not either try to define meanings for them
over other operations nor try to make the operators dynamically loadable
or creatable.

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