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heyts 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

This looks super useful, but I was wondering if I'm the only one bothered by this recent trend of overloading completely unrelated operators (here the `/` operator) in the name of legibility.

wrboyce 9 months ago [–]

I do agree overloading / is an odd choice in this instance, but it’s a shame “is” can’t be overloaded! Realistically wat(foo) would be fine though.

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