[Tutor] Classes that do operator overloading

[Alan Gauld]

"spir" <denis.spir at free.fr> wrote

> English is terrible. From wiktionary (abstracts)/

Indeed. and the fact that computer Scientists often abuse English
makes it worse!

> header
> Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, 
> often titling or summarizing it.

This is probaly the closest to the usual CS definition.

A class header in C++, Delphi, Objective C and some other
languages is separate to its definition and provides a summary
or statement of the class interface. The implementation of the
class is then done elsewhere (although possibly in the same file).
Thats why I don;t think the class name definition is sufficient to
constitute a "header", it doesn't give any clue about the operations
or attributes - no summary in other words.

A class name and well written docstring could just about be called
a header, but its not common usage in Python and its accuracy
would depend entirely on the quality of the docstring!

All IMHO of course! :-)

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Alan Gauld
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