Operators for everything (was Re: Operators for matrix)

[Michael Hudson]

Greg Ewing <to_get_my_address at see.my.signature> writes:

[snip smalltalk inspired ideas]
> However, I don't think that any of this sort of thing 
> is going to satisfy the mathematicians. Infix operators
> work not only because they are infix, but because they
> are extremely compact, allowing very complicated
> formulas to be expressed concisely yet readably.

But this is the problem! (as I see it)

If I see

A @mmul B

(or "A mmul: B" or "A :mmul B" (which I think is my favourite yet))
then I can have an informed guess at what is going on, but if I see

A %*!£ B

I've got no f**king clue!

[schnipp]
> I think we're just going to have to wait for Unicode
> before we can solve this in a really satisfactory way,
> folks.

Nah, not even then, I suspect.

Cheers,
M.
(who really really doesn't want to go to work today!)

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