Distfix

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  distfix
       
           ("distributed {fixity}"?) A description of an
          {operator} represented by multiple symbols before, between,
          and/or after the arguments.
       


          The classical example is the {C} conditional operator, "?:"
          which is written
       
          	E1 ? E2 : E3
       
          If E1 is true it returns E2 otherwise it returns E3.  Several
          {functional programming languages}, e.g. {Hope}, {Haskell},
          have similar operators ("if E1 then E2 else E3").
       
          {Objective C} {messages} are effectively distfix operator
          applications:
       
          	getRow:row andColumn:col ofCell:cell
       
          is a message with three arguments, row, col, and cell.
       
          (1997-01-21)