[Python-Dev] ANN: PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators

[exarkun at divmod.com]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:04:45 -0400, Kevin Jacobs <jacobs at theopalgroup.com> wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 
> > For these reasons, I'd feel more comfortable with either a literal 
> > syntax (to address algebra, SQL, etc.) or some type of special infix 
> > notation to allow new operators to be defined in Python, so that it 
> > isn't necessary to use prefix or method notation to perform operations 
> > like these.  Neither of these solutions burdens applications that 
> > don't need the feature(s).
> 
> Both of your alternatives are being used in some form and
> neither is really satisfactory.  Literal representations require
> complex parsers, when the Python parser is really what is
> desired.
  Python's parser is already available, through the compiler module.  The example given earlier, query("x and y or z"), is relatively straightforward to implement as a set of AST manipulations.
  Jp