20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
2:06 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Raymond Hettinger
I'm reminded of the effort to make "is" over-loadable. It finally go shot down because it so profoundly messed with people's understanding
I would even mention the whitespace overloading "idea": http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf Even in C++, not everything can be overloaded. Some applications are best served by a special purpose language rather than by adding features to a general purpose one.