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		gamegoblin on March 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix mul... I'd really like to see user-defined infix operators such as those in Haskell. There are some baked into the standard library (*+-/ etc), but you can also roll your own, so people could make do until this gets accepted.

maxerickson on March 16, 2014 [–]

You can get cute about it:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/384122-infix-operators/

The code there overrides | to construct arbitrary operators that are used by wrapping an object in |, like:

    a |x| b

where x defines the custom behavior.

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