Uniform Function Call Syntax?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 18:57:03 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> It's still not inconsistent to disallow math symbols.

It is inconsistent if you accept that different communities have 
different notations/languages. Why you would you want to exclude 
the scientific community?

> here: I want to guide people toward using descriptive names, 
> because that makes it easier to read code, which makes it 
> easier to verify correctness.

Err, no, the contrary. What you get is an incomprehensible and 
overly verbose mess that hide problems and/or result in excessive 
overloading of the "*" symbol. Try some geometric computing 
problems, it gets messy quickly.

People don't write descriptive names, they write short names, if 
you provide a very limited set of symbols. Like "dot".