Custom operator

Dan Bishop danb_83 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 20:57:59 EST 2004


Gerrit <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote in message news:<mailman.1296.1076064694.12720.python-list at python.org>...
> mathias.foehr at mails.lu wrote:
> > I want to define new operators because mathematicians use special operators 
> > (
> >         eg circle plus (+), circle times (*), arrows ->
> > ) since centuries. It increases readability in this area and people have 
> > got used to it.
> 
> Hm, but all syntax would have to be ASCII anyway.

There are still three ASCII characters that aren't used in Python:
'@', '$', and '?'.  I don't see any obvious mathematical meaning for
them, though.



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