[Python-ideas] Infix application of binary functions (original) (raw)

Chris Rebert pyideas at rebertia.com
Thu Jul 22 01:17:06 CEST 2010

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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Dag Odenhall <dag.odenhall at gmail.com> wrote:

It could help readability if binary (arity of 2) functions could be applied infix with some syntax. For example, borrowing from Haskell, the backtick could be reintroduced for this purpose.

Good examples for this are isinstance and hasattr:  if someobject isinstance Iterable:  ...  elif someobject hasattr 'iter':

Already proposed (by me) and rejected by the BDFL:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2007-January/000054.html

Cheers, Chris

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