[Edu-sig] re: Does edu-sig extend to Jython

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

[Dethe Elza]
>
> In your case, if both Line and Point have methods getHalfIntersection(),
> could you then have:
>
> def intersection(first, second):
>   return first.getHalfIntersection() * second.getHalfIntersection()
>
> where "*" is replace with the real operation or set of operations needed
> and getHalfIntersection is replaced with whatever is specific to lines
> and/or points?

Good point. Here is another very simple (and contrived) example as further
support of your point:

>>> def dup(first, second):
...     return first * second
...
>>> dup(3, "this")
'thisthisthis'
>>> dup("this", 3)
'thisthisthis'
>>>

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