Comment by Mond_
13 hours ago
It's not about having to remember them, it's that you shouldn't waste these short single symbols on operations that are only rarely used.
This stuff (especially the ternary) are a step backwards. There is just no reason to waste | on a bitwise or that gets used at 1% of the frequency of the standard or. In the future you might have a better use for it (pipeline syntax, sum or union types come to mind in other languages).
I dislike basically everything about these syntax extensions.
Lua is very unlikely to want to add newer/less-common syntax with special symbols.
Also a syntax for types can repurpose most symbols without being ambiguous.
And you can overload the bitwise operators. You can configure __bor to give you pipelining right now.