Pow Expressions - not worth the juice?

[Dejan Lekic]

On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 17:10:13 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 16:39:59 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 15:51:05 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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.
>
> well to be completly honest, it's nice to be able to write `a 
> %∩% b` but the percent syms waste the whole thing I think.

I suppose you could use # for this purpose and make `10 
#divisible# 2` return true... No ambiguities as # is not used 
anywhere in D. How can people live with that terrible R syntax is 
beyond me, but hey - matter of taste I guess! This could allow 
alternative syntax for some common logic operators (`foo #ge# 2` 
as alternative to `foo >= 2`)...