Allow repeated modifiers to simplify naming

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the symbol-name parsing and modifier-handling entry points, then compare the existing times and times.o cases with the proposed repeated names. Done should include a settled naming rule and coverage showing that examples such as times.o.o, lt.seq.gt.seq, and gt.seq.lt.seq resolve correctly.

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Description

meta proposal

For a handful of symbols, it would be useful to be able to repeat modifiers. I give two examples here.

  1. We currently have

× - times
⊗ - times.o

Another variant that has not been named yet is ⨷, where times.o.o is an obvious name candidate.

  1. In "Supplemental Mathematical Operators" one finds ⪓ and ⪔.

Natural names would be lt.seq.gt.seq and gt.seq.lt.seq.

(Or any of a number of other alternatives, but they all share the need to repeat one or more modifiers)

This is only somewhat orthogonal to making it possible to disambiguate using order (the other proposal)

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