Discussion: Introducing new operators for matrix computation

[Paul Prescod]

John Lull wrote:
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> ...
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> The problem is that Python provides no way for an add-on module to
> define new operators.  

But that's not really an accident. There are languages that allow you to
define new operators. REBOL is the most flexible example. Python
emphasizes syntactic *simplicity*.

> Unfortunately, the current lack of appropriate notation makes these
> problems very difficult to code clearly.

Every domain of computing would be enhanced with special notation. Text
processing, XML, COM, databases, Web programming etc.

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