overloading operators for I/O

[Chad J]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Manfred Nowak wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote
>>
>>> All characters above 0x7F require unicode multibyte encodings. The
>>> latin1 table is not an encoding subset of unicode.
>>
>>
>> This invalidates the proposed character only, which is of minor 
>> importance.
> 
> 
> There isn't much left below 0x7F :-(

Hmmmm, abstract algebra...
would this be easily parsable?
other objections?
a = b (+) c;
a = b (-) c;
a = b (*) c;
a = b (^) c;
a = b (|) c;
a = b ($) c;
a = b (?) c;
etc...

That first one kinda reminds me of the everyone's favorite 
circle-with-plus-inside.