[Python-ideas] Technical possibilities for a syntax [was: Reverse assignment operators ...]
David Mertz
mertz at gnosis.cx
Wed Nov 16 14:10:54 EST 2016
>
> Similar problem: semantics change. If someone decided to be weird and have
> __add__ and __iadd__ do two different things, this would completely break
> that. Granted, that's a stupid idea to begin with, but it's still poor
> justification for the code breakage.
>
The most notable example of something that is "weird" and "a stupid idea"
is NumPy... and *everything* in the Scientific Python ecosystem thereby.
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