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reverius42
7 months ago
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I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
I'm not sure how "operator+" is supposed to be appreciably different from "__add__".
brabel
7 months ago
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One is a sensible choice a human might pick. The other is not.
acdha
7 months ago
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So who were the non-humans who picked the one you don’t like?
orphea
7 months ago
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Both are doing their job just fine?
dragonwriter
7 months ago
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They are both sensible choices that a human
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pick, that's how they got into their respective languages.
WesolyKubeczek
7 months ago
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They have different locality of behavior, for one.
reverius42
6 months ago
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And what makes one name "special" while the other is only "pseudo-special"?
reverius42
6 months ago
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I meant as a choice of name.
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