> Not that it actually matters, of course. It matters if you care about consistency. After learning the simplicity of lisp, all other use of special symbols fo

> Not that it actually matters, of course. It matters if you care about consistency. After learning the simplicity of lisp, all other use of special symbols for infix syntax strikes me as arbitrary and fiddly. Arbitrary choices should be left to library (function and macro) developers, I appreciate that the core language is simple, extensible, and consistent.