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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by thaumasiotes on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:17AM (#44580931)
> Have you considered how much familiarity might shape your reaction to the two?

It doesn't.

> Both are specific patterns with arbitrary restrictions which new learners have to internalize, and that’s a fairly advanced task most people won’t hit until they are familiar with the language syntax.

No, the Python methods are just ordinary methods with valid names. What 'arbitrary restrictions' are you referring to?

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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by acdha on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @08:29AM (#44581504)
The arbitrary restriction is that you have to just learn a specific pattern and follow it. I can’t have my Python class use “addition” if I hate underscores or my C++ code use “mathematical_division” if I’m horribly pedantic. In both cases, it’s just a particular design decision by the language developers I have to learn, and in both cases I won’t think much of it after the initial acclimation.
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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by yunwal on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:14PM (#44587392)
Python you have to learn something arbitrary for each dunder method you want to define/override. + —> __add__, * —-> __mul__, etc

C++ it’s just one pattern to learn, x -> operatorx

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