Sebastien Loisel wrote:
However, just for posterity (and I'm not going to pursue the argument further than this), I'll say this. The problem of determining the meaning (or overridability or whatever) of x=4$6 is the same as the problem of determining the meaning of x=fooz(4,6). Since it's not a good argument against user-defined functions, I don't see it as a good argument against user-defined operators.
The namespace of usefully mnemonic function names is infinitely larger than that of usefully mnemonic punctuation marks. User-defined functions are good, but once you have those there is no reason to have user-defined operators *as well*.
Cheers, Nick. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
