On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:58 PM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > I'm in general not in favour of piling in special symbols into a language > just to solve some obscure or rare problem. > > As I went on to demonstrate, function-like syntax (or even actual functions) > could do that job better, by describing what the operation does and not > leaving people scratching their heads so much when they encounter that > funny-looking operator hidden in 20,000 lines of code. > > As for '@', if a variable name can come before it /and/ after it, and either > or both can be dotted, wouldn't that cause it to be highlighted as an email > address in many circumstances? Such as in code posted here. > > (OK, let's try it and see what happens. My Thunderbird doesn't do previews > so I will have to post it first: > > abc@def > a...@def.ghi) > > I would find that rather annoying. >
You're way WAY too late to debate the matrix multiplication operator. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
