Overloading the tilde operator?

[Ben Finney]

James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > The Python runtime parser is designed to parse Python, not some
> > arbitrary language that someone chooses to implement in Python.
>
> You haven't addressed why the limitation isn't arbitrary.

Good thing I wasn't trying to do that, then. I was pointing out the
source of the limitation.

The Python syntax parser must follow the rules of the Python
language. If you accept that premise, it follows that the '~' operator
is unary only. If you *don't* accept that premise, I have no help to
offer.

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Ben Finney