[Python-ideas] PEP 428 - object-oriented filesystem paths

[Greg Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> But it's just a name. __add__ doesn't necessarily perform addition,
> __sub__ doesn't necessarily perform subtraction, and __or__ doesn't
> necessarily have anything to do with either bitwise or boolean OR.

Maybe they should have been called __plus__, __dash__, __star__,
__slash__ etc., then we wouldn't keep having this argument...

-- 
Greg