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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: True == 1 weirdness
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:52:30 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-09-16, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

[...]

>> graph = a => b => c <= d <= e
>
> Are you suggesting that all objects concerned are a magical "graph node
> object", the <= and [sic] => operators of which return "edge objects",
> the and operator of which constructs a graph object containing all such
> edges? That's *horrifying*. And won't actually work. We haven't actually
> got an => operator, thankfully, and you can't overload 'and'.
>
> I bet you could do it in C++ though.

If that isn't a damning indictment, I don't know what is. :)

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