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[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-01-13, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:

> If you've ever implemented operator=, operator+, and operator+=
> in C++ you'll know how and why they are different.

That assumes that C++ programmers understand C++.

;)

> A C++ programmer would be wondering how either can work on immutable
> objects, and that's where Python's magical rebinding semantics come
> into play.

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