new python syntax: concatenation of functions

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Uwe Mayer <merkosh at hadiko.de> wrote in message news:<c2pj49$ej3$1 at news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>...
> Hi,
> 
> I know the python community is not very receptive towards extending the
> python syntax. Nevertheless I'd like to make a suggestion and hear your pro
> and cons.
> 
> I want so suggest a concatenation operator like in mathematics: °
> such that: 
> 
>     a(b(c(d))) <=> a°b°c(d)
> 
> Now, why do you think such an extension would be completely useless? ;)
> 
> Ciao
> Uwe

This is not useless, but does not require new notations. Just use
callable objects instead of functions and overload "*" to denote
composition.


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