Unicode operators? (Re: Custom operator)

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

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

There was an idea floating around a while back to define
'@' as matrix multiplication, so the Numeric people could
use it. Hasn't happened yet, though.

Hmmm... Now that we can have Unicode source, maybe any
otherwise-unused Unicode punctuation character could be
allowed as an operator. The corresponding method name
would be character's Unicode name with double underscores
attached.

There's the problem of precedence... maybe that could
be defined by the Unicode collating sequence... :-)

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
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