Operators for everything (was Re: Operators for matrix)

[Bill Whiten]

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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