[Python-ideas] Infix functions

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure about enclosing the operator character in quotes. C++ and C#
> use an operator keyword, while Ruby doesn't mark it at all. Python, of
> course, uses __oper__ functions for overloading built-in operators.
> Writing __∩__ would complicate the tokenizer as it would have to
> recognize this exact syntax and treat it as an identifier while not
> allowing math symbol characters in other uses in an identifier.
>

What about __intersection__, __union__, etc.  It looks like all symbols of
interest have relatively short one-two word names in Unicode that can me
mechanically converted to dunder method names.
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