Why are ↗, ↖ not useable as Binary infix operators?

See:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/23224
We’d eventually like to allow this, but the basic problem is that we haven’t decided what precedence to use for things like . (The precedence of an operator is set in the parser and needs to be decided more or less permanently. It is difficult to decide what to do with Unicode symbols that don’t have a standard mathematical meaning.)

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