> > Similar problem: semantics change. If someone decided to be weird and have > __add__ and __iadd__ do two different things, this would completely break > that. Granted, that's a stupid idea to begin with, but it's still poor > justification for the code breakage. >
The most notable example of something that is "weird" and "a stupid idea" is NumPy... and *everything* in the Scientific Python ecosystem thereby. -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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