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

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

[Arthur]
>
> Since there is no *geometric* reason for plane, line to be
> preferable over line, plane in finding an intersection, I would
> like there not to be an artificially imposed way it needs to
> be done. Basically just trying to get out of the way.

I may be off target here, but I keep thinking that maybe overloading an
operator is a cleaner solution for what you are describing. For example, can
an intersection be represented by some mathematical operation on the two
objects?

    intersection = someLine % somePlane

Then each object would just have to define the special methods __mod__(self,
other) and __rmod__(self, other). If the order of the operands is
insignificant then the following line would yield an equivalent result as
the example above:

  intersection = somePlane % someLine

Thoughts?

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