[Python-ideas] PEP 355 (overloading boolean operations) and chained comparisons

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
..
> 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.