Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Making the commutator operator where you need it *is* a general solution.
True. Let me rephrase. The problem is that when dealing with operator names
such as ~~ and &&, coming up with commutator operator names will make a mess
of readability.
> I think there's a syntactic-ambiguity reason why the spec is like that...
OK, that might need to be analyzed.