Pow Expressions - not worth the juice?

[user1234]

On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 15:51:05 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 15:23:09 UTC, user1234 wrote:
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>> So you just avoid the call-expression syntax so that you can 
>> put spaces between the operands and the operator ? I'm not 
>> sure this solves any problem. Maybe you can provide 
>> enlightning examples ? The one from your link is not 
>> convincing.
>
> I was sketching out what a D version of the example from that 
> link, not that I would want to do that in D. We have UFCS.
>
> The idea is that you can put anything in within the "op" of 
> "%op%", so it's on the user to decide how they want to make use 
> of it (or not). R uses "%*%" for matrix multiplication. That's 
> more ergonomic than `A.matmul(B)`.

Thanks for your reply but that confirms what I initially thought. 
Personally I see a little problem with the surrouding percent 
symbols (i.e not a progress compared to call syntax, they are 
equally unperfect) but essentially that's not a criticism about R 
designers choices. Just not fan you see.