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other python ideas other python ideasGreg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Apr 9 23:00:15 EDT 2001
Carlos Alberto Reis Ribeiro wrote:
> 
> In the end, Robin Thomas found a nice way to solve the problem
> *without* having to resort to a magic __assign__ method. I believe that
> this may lead to a big improvement, specially for NumPy operations.

It's an elegant solution, but I find it a bit scary
to think that some '+' operators might invoke __iadd__
instead of __add__ under certain conditions which are
not necessarily obvious from looking at the source.
We'd lose some of the WYWIWYG (What You Write Is What
You Get) nature of Python.

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury,	  
Christchurch, New Zealand
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