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voidUpdate 2 hours ago

At least in javascript, it tells you if things are equal or not. In python, apparently you could answer if A is equal to B with "beans" or 17 or ['a']

hmry an hour ago | parent [-]

Never understood this complaint about operator overloading.

In any language, a function called `isEqual` could wipe your hard drive and replace your wallpaper with a photo of a penguin. Therefore, letting programmers pick the names of their functions is bad? No, obviously naming things for least surprise is the programmer's responsibility.

But when it's the symbols `==` instead of an ASCII name, it's a problem in language design?

(FWIW in Javascript, being unable to override == is actually a problem when you want to use objects as Map keys)