But why would you want to do that? This is the sort of madness that led C++ into hell. Sometimes '=' is this sort of operator, sometimes it is that. The old Perl maxim of make it possible to write the same thing in sixteen different ways is another fresh hell.

85% of the cost of softare is in code maintenance. Suddenly spawning multiple idioms for the same thing is madness. This proposal would directly increase the cost of running my software house - just not ever a good idea.