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Re:Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects by jawns on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:58PM (#41075013)
I get the reasoning behind it, but the choice of the division operator is still a little weird.

I believe it should be equally possible to overload the bitwise OR operator (|), which, for people used to piping in Unix, is probably more intuitive.

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Re:Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects by Tomte on Friday July 26, 2024 @01:22AM (#41075967)
Wrong direction: you‘d „pipe“ wat through the object. Although TiddlyWiki users might feel right at home.
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Re:Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects by auscompgeek on Friday July 26, 2024 @05:41AM (#41077186)
It could override the reverse bitwise or magic method `__ror__`.
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Re:Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects by igrek51 on Friday July 26, 2024 @06:47AM (#41077523)
Right, that would be a wrong pipe direction. Fun fact: It's already possible to do "wat | foo" or "wat << foo" (if you're more familiar with C++ iostream), it has the same effect as "wat / foo"
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