# Julia 1.2 feature freeze April 4th

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-feature-freeze-april-4th/22478>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** announcement, releases\
**Created:** [March 28, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-feature-freeze-april-4th/22478 "2019-03-28T19:47:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![chakravala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chakravala/32/6832_2.png) [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-feature-freeze-april-4th/22478/8 "2019-04-03T23:01:11Z")

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I believe that @stevengj would approve of it

> [@★ is not an operator](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-not-an-operator/20221/17):
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> ★ is [U+2605](https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2605/index.htm), “black star”, in Unicode [category So (Symbol, other)](https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/So/index.htm). For the most part (with the exception of some [arrows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)#Arrows_in_Unicode)), Julia only parses a subset of [category Sm (Symbol, math)](https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Sm/index.htm) as infix operators. In particular, you should look at [U+22C6 (“star operator”)](https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/22c6/index.htm), typed by tab-completing \star in the REPL, which is in category Sm and is parsed as an infix operator: julia\> ⋆(x,y) = 2x+y ⋆ (generic function with 1 method) julia\> 3 ⋆ 4 10 (Unfortunately, in many fonts, ⋆ is shown rather small.)

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