[Python-Dev] ANN: PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 16 03:48:25 CEST 2004


> PS: Perl6 has distinct element-wise operators ("hyper" operators). I
> find that less distasteful than misusing regular operators as
> element-wise operators, when they really have vastly different
> semantics.

There was a huge discussion about that a while back.
I don't think anything came of it, though.

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