On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 8:39 PM Raymond Hettinger < raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, Counter is explicitly documented to support the four multiset-style > mathematical operations discussed in Knuth TAOCP Volume II section 4.6.3 > exercise 19: > Wow, I never noticed "&" and "|" -- I guess when I got to "Common patterns for working with" in the documentation, I figured that there wouldn't be any new methods introduced after that and I stopped reading. > > it would be a bit weird and disorienting for the arithmetic operators to > have two different signatures: > > <counter> += <counter> > <counter> -= <counter> > <counter> *= <scalar> > <counter> /= <scalar> > Is it weird and disorienting to have: <str> += <str> <str> *= <scalar>
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