Using + - * / as first-class functions

[nicolas-p]

The following instruction works in the Hy REPL :

(reduce + [1 2 3])

But in the Notebook I get the following error :

  File "<ipython-input-81-3b279c95df1d>", line 1
    from hy.core.shadow import +
                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

As this happens only in the Notebook, I guess the issue is in the Hy kernel but I'm not sure.

Configuration:
IPython 3.0.0
Python 3.4.2
Hy 0.10.1

[bollwyvl]

I haven't swung back around in a while to check it out: lots of new kernel stuff happened since my last commit!

[bollwyvl]

Just had a look into this: sorry for the huge delay.

I don't think the approach that is currently in hy_kernel will be able to support this particular ast hack: I don't see how to generate a string of valid python that uses operators this way. Of course, there is operator.mul, but I imagine this is unsatisfying.

I'll keep this open, but it might have to be somehow changed upstream in hy itself... if code generation isn't a priority, it might not be.