On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 17:49:35 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
I've mentioned this before, but I think a constrained set of user-defined operators using annotations/affixes on the existing set is a better fit for D. It's a lesson well-learned from other languages (cf. OCaml; F#), and fits with D's generally practical bent.
Not sure what you mean by annotations/affixes and what lesson there is to be learned? What problems have other languages had with this?
I mean, if you want to alias them to Lucky Charms or various hieroglyphs of birds disemboweling men later, I guess maybe that's could work? But I really don't want any language features predicated on the programmer having an APL keyboard.
I don't see how mixfix notation makes this "problem" larger than the current prefix notation.
Why is the current situation that allows "ø(x,y)" less problematic than the proposed "(x ø y)" ?
