A trick to have arbitrary infix operators in Python
People are used to math infix operators and can use them efficiently.<p>But working with infix operators in other contexts would be a complete nightmare. Limiting what a given expression can "bind" to, what it can form a large expression with, is a way to limit the processing needed to understand a given piece of code. Being able to say one thing a hundred different ways isn't good if the read has to search for a hundred different maybe-meanings a given string might have.