len() and PEP 3000

[Ross Ridge]

Colin J. Williams wrote:
> __len__ is not very special and the
> property len eliminates the redundant parentheses.

tac-tics wrote:
> One might say the current syntax eliminates the redundant dot.

Make "len" an operator, like C's "sizeof", and eliminate the
(hypothetical) dot, parenthesises and a name lookup.

                                    Ross Ridge