[e-lang] Operator Renaming

[Mark S. Miller]

I just re-skimmed the old thread rooted at 
http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/e-lang/2001-April/005069.html .  It seems 
the operator expansions renamings we agree to are

compareTo    -> op__cmp
run          -> op__call
get          -> op__getitem
set          -> op__setitem
add          -> op__add
subtract     -> op__sub
negate       -> op__neg
multiply     -> op__mul
floorDivide  -> op__floorDiv
approxDivide -> op__approxDiv
remainder    -> op__remainder
mod          -> op__mod
pow          -> op__pow
leftShift    -> op__lshift
and          -> op__and
xor          -> op__xor
or           -> op__or
complement   -> op__invert
butNot       -> op__mask
not          -> op__not

Without some such renaming, Ping's desire for 'and', 'or' and 'not' keywords 
cannot be accommodated.  Also, for all the reasons stated in that thread, 
these renamings are probably a good idea in their own right.  Does anyone 
have any objection to this happening soon, given that the old names are 
deprecated but supported during the transition?


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        Cheers,
        --MarkM