Operators for everything (was Re: Operators for matrix)

[Tim Rowe]

In article <m38zuvny7v.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>, mwh21 at cam.ac.uk 
(Michael Hudson) wrote:

> W.Whiten at mailbox.uq.edu.au (Bill Whiten) writes:
> 

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> > I would prefer the normal oprerators plus an escape character 
> > followed by
> > additional characters to define new operators eg @+ @div etc.
> 
> I quite like this idea (unlike most of the others that have been
> mentioned...); it reminds me of Haskell.

Ouch -- I don't. The type of an identifier determined by the characters in 
the identifier, rather than being assigned? That's one of the things I 
loathe about Perl. And what would a Python identifier be doing, 
constrained to refer only to one type?