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Brendan Eich (2013-10-29T18:39:01.000Z)

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Dean Landolt wrote:
> The PEP Tristan posted offers a pretty compelling case for 
> distinguishing elementwise operators from objectwise ones (although 
> not for this dot syntax per se, they went with a ~-prefix): 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0225/

Got it, thanks. We could indeed do .+, .*, etc. without ambiguity. 
(Ignore E4X's wildcards: xml.* etc.!)

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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-11-03T22:09:39.036Z)

Dean Landolt wrote:
> The PEP Tristan posted offers a pretty compelling case for 
> distinguishing elementwise operators from objectwise ones (although 
> not for this dot syntax per se, they went with a ~-prefix): 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0225/

Got it, thanks. We could indeed do .+, .\*, etc. without ambiguity.  (Ignore E4X's wildcards: xml.\* etc.!)

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