user-defined operators: a very modest proposal

[Steve R. Hastings]

> Here is a thought: Python already supports an unlimited number of
> operators, if you write them in prefix notation:

And indeed, so far Python hasn't added user-defined operators because this
has been adequate.


> Here is some syntax that I don't object to, although that's not saying
> much.

> m0(+)m1

That form was discussed previously, as were "[+]", "<+>", etc.  The
favorite was "{+}".  I believe such forms were considered hard to tell
from code. In particular, m0(+) looks like a function call.

See the PEP:

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0225.html

Alas, the links to the discussion about this don't work.  But it is
possible to use the Google Groups archive of comp.lang.python to read some
of the discussion.
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