| ▲ | evanb 5 hours ago | |
Mathematica has Infix [0], which expresses the adjacency with a ~ (because Mathematica reserves pure blankspace for multiplication). But it works fine to do eg. `"hello"~StringJoin~" world"`; I was always surprised we could only have the predefined operators in many other languages and we couldn't define our own. This seems like a great attempt. I would be worried about how much parsing and backtracking might be required to infer the infix precedence in a totally general system (like garden-path sentences[1]) or actually ambiguous parse trees (which is cured by adopting some rule like right precedence and parens, but what rule you pick makes some 'natural language' constructions work over others). | ||
| ▲ | nxobject 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Similarly, Agda has a well-typed mixfix operator syntax – you define a function like (_foo_bar_baz) and can automatically write "X foo Y bar Z baz". It does mean that the operator parser has to be extensible at runtime, but it's not a huge cost for a dependently-typed language. | ||