Discussion: new operators for numerical computation

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn8nevfr.d8.bmcd at ripley.sulaco.net>,
Ben Caradoc-Davies <bmcd at es.co.nz> wrote:
>
>The fact that APL has been mentioned in this thread is a bad, *bad* sign.

Yeah, that's my feeling, too.  It's not entirely clear to me why we
can't use some kind of string-based expression mechanism instead of
adding all this at the language level.  Python's brilliance is its
*clean* syntax.  Why are we mucking with the core language for this?
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