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[Python-ideas] Infix matrix-multiply, but not general infix operators?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Mar 21 17:47:21 CET 2014 
On 03/21/2014 07:19 AM, Henshaw, Andy wrote:
> From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+andy.henshaw=gtri.gatech.edu at python.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Furman
>
>> On 03/20/2014 08:40 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, imagine what it would look like to chain these:
>>>
>>>       spam spam eggs baked beans spam spam
>>>
>>> Maybe the parser can figure out that the spam, baked, and spam are
>>> operators and the spam, eggs, beans, and spam are operands, but what
>>> hope does any human have?
>>
>> Why would spam be able to be both a variable and an operator?
>> Hmm, perhaps because of the first-class citizen thing -- so the
>> leading grit says "make it work" and without it is just passing it around.
>
> Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Python, however, is not English, and would only recognize two different objects from the above, so that would be a 
SyntaxError.

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~Ethan~
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