Guido van Rossum writes: > > ... I can see no valid reason why someone would want to overload > a>b different than b<a, ... > I agree. But this assumes that the result of A<B and B>A is a collection of Booleans. In the Interactive Data Language (IDL) these operators are essentially mapped to ceiling and floor functions which are not commutative. I personally find this silly, but IDL users coming to Python may be surprised when the comparison of two Numeric arrays returns a Boolean-like result. -- Dr. Paul Barrett Space Telescope Science Institute Phone: 410-338-4475 ESS/Science Software Group FAX: 410-338-4767 Baltimore, MD 21218
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