Well, I finally ran into a Python Unicode problem, sort of

BartC bc at freeuk.com
Sun Jul 3 20:17:32 EDT 2016


On 04/07/2016 01:00, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 11:47:26 AM UTC+12, eryk sun wrote:
>> Python lacks a mechanism to add user-defined operators. (R has this
>> capability.) Maybe this feature could be added.
>
> That would be neat. But remember, you would have to define the operator precedence as well. So you could no longer use a recursive-descent parser.

That wouldn't be a problem provided the new operator symbol and its 
precedence is known at a compile time, and defined before use.


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Bartc




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