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psychoslaveyesterday at 9:04 AM0 repliesview on HN

I'm not sure they are that different, you could just as well store function calls in some constant each on its line then addition the result on a third. This is only syntax, not conceptual difference here. And on practical level, the difference is that the operator can be directly matched with some machine instruction, with operands being native data type such as integer.

Still, you might then prefer a word as permutability, or swappability.