> > ... 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. This means that Python can't be used to emulate this part of IDL. I don't understand how these can be not commutative unless they have a side effect on the left argument, and that's not possible in Python anyway. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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