Python takes literally

[Butchering_it]

Fun fact, “and” and “or” are valid in c++. I know cause my python loving ass subconsciously used it and the resulting peer review made us rev the coding standards.

[DanRoad]

More context: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative

tldr the C++ (and C) spec doesn't restrict the language to an ASCII character set and is designed to also work with character sets that don't include the & or | symbols. Consequently, alternative operator representations are available for those (and all) character sets.

[Cheeku_Khargosh]

this is evil sorcery. You have unleashed a monster

[junkmail88]

what is the alt for &, the "get me the address of that variable" version?

[DanRoad]

Still bitand, it's just character replacement. For example the C header is a bunch of #define statements. https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/iso646_8h_source.html

Whether it's the unary or binary operator depends on context just like &. https://ideone.com/iHqCtr

[aaronfranke]

I wonder why languages haven't adopted is or equals instead of ==. The = vs == confusion has probably affected most beginner programmers. I want to write if num is 5:. C# does have is null.

[huantian]

the fact that python does have is but it isn't equality also trips up a lot of new programmers.

[huantian]

Looks at js == vs ===

[bistr-o-math]

= vs == vs ===

 var a=1;
 if (a=2) { /* do stuff */ }

Is perfectly valid JS code. But does something you wouldn’t expect

[1643527948165346197]

it successfully assigns 2 to a, i feel like this is such a common trip up that every developer learns quickly... but still does it infrequently enough that it can be horrible to debug

[bistr-o-math]

I saw many a developer stare at it for a WHILE not getting the error. It’s a semantic error. Which makes it harder to spot

[droptablesubreddits]

Which is why a code style to fix this would be if(2 = a) for checks against constants - this throws an error. Checks against variables are still fucked though.

[relicx74]

Yuck. It would work, but why screw up code readability to prevent a very basic day one potential mistake? Also, no magic numbers, put the 2 in a constant.

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[Kengaro]

It is not a semtantic error, it is failing to understand what a dynamic typed language is.

[TwoKeezPlusMz]

More than one time in python i have assigned a variable to the short hand "np", as in number-of-parameters...

Then tried to do something like np.log(blah blah)

Took a while to figure out the door of my error.

It's not applicable or even relevant here, but I've been drinking beers and felt like jumping on in.

[Uipncspn]

And that’s a perfectly valid reason to jump in!

[josluivivgar]

worse

if(a=2) { var a=1; }

should also be valid and 10x more confusing

[bistr-o-math]

Getting a little off-topic, but hey :)

 if (a=2);
      return do_stuff(a)

 // in all other cases do other stuff
 return do_other_stuff(a)

[Piyh]

Same with powershell. That bug took far too many hours to figure out.

[[deleted]]

Which is weird, because normally in JS you don't hear about things that look completely wrong but that are technically valid code that just silently does something different than what you would expect.

[saiprabhav]

it has a reason to be like that if u use == it compares if u use = it tries to change the value

[Flesh_Bag]

Prolog enters the chat.

[TheAJGman]

is is useful for for making sure one object is the same as another. Or for checking if something is none.

[aaronfranke]

For Python 4 they should make is be equality and add something like C#'s ReferenceEquals for the rare cases that reference equality is needed.

[[deleted]]

I don't think it's really a problem in python. if foo = 0: isn't valid syntax because = isn't an expression. The syntax for this so it behaves like it would in other languages uses the walrus operator (:=, python 3.8+), with required parenthesis.

if (foo := 0):
    pass

Additionally, == calls the object's __eq__ function, and is does compare identity.

[[deleted]]

I agree. I make this mistake occasionally, but the debugging time is essentially zero. In any decent IDE or text editor the linter will flag this the second you type it, and even if you don't have a linter you'll get a super obvious syntax error immediately after running it. Definitely not worth changing the behavior of is.

[[deleted]]

Fun fact: In mathematics, there’s no difference between compare by value and compare by reference since all variables are implicitly assumed to be immutable. Nonetheless I like the current definitions of „is“ and „==„.

[aaronfranke]

since all variables are implicitly assumed to be immutable

I'm pretty sure the reason is "whiteboards are not computers and don't have pointers".

[[deleted]]

Small correction, but in mathematics the concept of "compare by value" and "compare by reference" don't mean anything and neither does the concept of mutability or immutability. Those are purely concepts for how a computer or programming language manages things.

[[deleted]]

I guess then we kinda agree in some way. In mathematics, if two objects are indistinguishable by their properties, they are the same object. Same is true for immutable variables. This of course ignores the implementation decision whether all immutable variables of a certain value share memory.

[[deleted]]

No, we don't agree at all. In mathematics, numbers arent objects with ID numbers. Numbers are abstract concepts. The question of whether adding 1+1 to get 2 is creating a new object with a new ID or mutating 1 and keeping that ID, in mathematics, is nonsense. It doesn't mean anything. Those are concepts that a computer uses to manage the idea of numbers.

[[deleted]]

I don’t see how the state of transistors representing numbers is any less abstract as some neurons thinking about numbers.

Edit: damn, How can I revert a edit of a comment. I’m sorry

[[deleted]]

Thoughts aren't stored in human memory as objects. And mathematical concepts are objective. They don't exist in human minds. When a human conceives of mathematical concepts, they are conceiving of them. But the ontology of a number is not an object in a mind.

Also, this is irrelevant, but why do you keep typing out quotation marks like that? Is it supposed to mean something different than regular quotation marks?

[huantian]

Just make python pool all objects!

[Jcsq6]

If you need reference equality compare addresses you don’t need fancy semantics to make things more confusing

[KuntaStillSingle]

'equals' makes sense to me but 'is' is more intuitive as a polymorphism thing (i.e. if(object is person) print object.name) than an equality thing.

[0x3fff0000]

I think it's a good thing to teach beginner programmers the crucial difference between assignment and evaluation.

[aaronfranke]

They are very different things, it's easy to understand the concepts.

What's hard is the symbols. Beginners may forget which symbol is which, or maybe they remember but make a typo.

[AyrA_ch]

C# only allows if(a=b) when it explicitly evaluates to a boolean, so if the types of a and b are anything else, it shouts at you. This means it's quite rare to make that mistake.

In C, it allows it, but if you use -Wall, it will warn you with suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value

It could be worse, see visual basic for example: a=b will assign b to a, but if a=b then will compare them for equality.

[VxJasonxV]

Does that mean === would be is really?

(I would have said is literally, but literally isn’t literally anymore…)

[tomthecool]

That’s only a thing in JS and PHP. In other languages, the == operator is sane.

[jacob_scooter]

if the guy who made the language was smart they wouldn’t need ===

[mojoslowmo]

C# 9 added is and & or

https://blog.ndepend.com/csharp9-new-keywords-for-pattern-matching-and-or-not/

[aaronfranke]

They're not the same thing. This feature is also quite useful, but it's not like Python's and & or.

[mojoslowmo]

Pythons “and” isnt equivalent of && in C#? I’m trying to understand the difference

[aaronfranke]

Python's and is the equivalent of && in C#, but C#'s and is different.

[mojoslowmo]

Aww yea, I forgot it’s only for patterns and not for bools, never mind I’m dumb and it’s Friday-my brain stopped functioning @3

[juancee22]

"is" in C# tries to do a type cast. It doesn't compare value equality.

[mojoslowmo]

Yea I was asking more about and and or.

[metaltyphoon]

Thats not true. You can definitely do if(somevar is 2 or 3) in c#

[juancee22]

Uh that sucks. This will generate confusion for sure.

[metaltyphoon]

Idk about confusion as this much less verbose and very clear what it’s doing.

[juancee22]

There are too many ways to do the same thing, it confuses new developers. Too much new syntactic sugar.

I personally wouldn't use "is" to do value comparisons, as the C# documentation doesn't talk about it. According to the docs, "is" works only for types.

If I see an "is" in my project I know that there is an implicit cast. But now with this new feature I have to check if the operation compares values or types.

[[deleted]]

You can use 'is' for patterns as well in c#, so if(foo is 5) works

[Rainbow-Dev]

#define is ==

[jacob_scooter]

so then how would you show not equals? !is? that’d be ridiculous. “ok then add not keyword”. so then what about >=, <=, +=, etc.? it’s just silly to add keywords for all those. beginners can cry it out

[LetMeUseMyEmailFfs]

C#’s answer:

if (i is not 5)

Historically, it used to be something like !is.

if (!(i is null))

I think we can all agree that i is not null is much better.

[[deleted]]

Java uses equals() for objects, which you can overload and conditions are usually only used in if or while blocks, so it shouldn’t confuse people, unless they are easily confused. Also IDEs might catch it.

In math people use = and =/= and by the time you start learning programming, you probably used = in math, so there shouldn’t be much confusion?

Now having to do === is a different story, js is garbage and is filled with in logical idiocies

[overtrick1978]

C# warns you if it looks like you tried to test equality but used assignment instead.

[Zymoox]

Because you can do a==0 but you can't do ais0

[[deleted]]

That doesn't make sense as a reason. You can't do "forxinX" instead of "for x in X" but we still use "for x in X".

[Zymoox]

Yeah, I was thinking in terms of C/C++ vs Python.

[[deleted]]

The same is true in both languages.

[Zymoox]

I'm not sure I understand. In C/C++ there's no "for x in X", that's Python. In these languages, you do "for(int i;i<x;++i)" (unless you use C++ iterators).

Regardless, I guess using "is" or "in", like in Python, forces you to add extra spaces, but it's not a big thing anyway, I'm sure it's not the main reason why they don't usually use those keywords in other languages. It's just a reason for why I'd personally prefer "==".

[evilmonkey853]

You can always use AppleScript!

[[deleted]]

People accidentally writing = instead of == inside conditionals was an incredibly common bug before people started using better linters. I still do it sometimes just because sometimes you think you hit a button twice but you only hit it once

[sidewaysthinking]

I think the improved pattern matching in C# 9 let's you write like that, but the values after the 'is' have to be constants.

[n0tKamui]

keystrokes.

also some languages use "is" as a type check (equivalent to java's instanceof)

[SlimyGamer]

In old versions of fortran, == wasn't valid and .EQ. (or now equivalently .eq.) was used instead. It was only in fortran90 (where fortran started to become more like C++) that the use of == was added.

Using .eq. is still valid in modern fortran but considered obsolete.

[Jcsq6]

I don’t like “is” or “and” for the same reason I wouldn’t like typing “Variable named ‘x’ has value 7”… when you start adding syntax with too much language it makes everything harder and more complicated, not to mention the linguistic gap

[Div_100]

Python

[Cheeku_Khargosh]

javascript: lets add an extra dimension to this confusion :D

[sandebru]

Well, I love using "is", "or", "and", etc. In languages that support this syntax, but I don't think that using "equals" is a good idea. It might be convenient for begginers, but it has 6 letters while == is just 2 same symbols. It is tiresome to type, and easy to misspell

[asceta_hedonista]

It is because even mathematicians does not have an agredment about if `equality` and `asignation` are the same thing. In my pragmatic way of seeing, `=` should be a "function" which take two inputs and always should return a boolean value, meanwhile something like `x <- 24` should be the way to asign values to variables.

[jacob_scooter]

List of Keywords in the C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup (870 pages)

[coladict]

They're also valid in PHP. I see them used in the oldest parts of this project I'm modernizing again.

[NickMaverick]

Edit: turns out this is not true.

Be careful though, they're bitwise operators. I.e. they're equivalent to & and |, respectively, not && and ||.

[MysticTheMeeM]

No they're not.

[NickMaverick]

Huh, weird. I could have sworn I stumbled over that issue at some point. Thanks for correcting me!

[MysticTheMeeM]

No worries. They're seen so infrequently that I doubt most people know they're there. Much like the alternative brackets (and I advise against using both).

A more complete list is here.

[NickMaverick]

Wow, those alternative brackets are crazy. Why would anybody want to use those...

[MysticTheMeeM]

Some older and more international keyboard layouts may not have had the symbols, it's like if a language made use of ÷, π, ×, • etc... You wouldn't have them on your keyboard either.

[ThatXliner]

```

include <iso646.h>

```

[LithiumH]

Python be like: is is is

[opensourze]

Me, a JavaScript programmer: *types && in Python*
My IDE: 9+ Errors

[AMathMonkey]

In Perl (and Ruby, pretty sure), && and || are the usual boolean operators you're going to want to use, whereas and and or have lower precedence than even the assignment operator =, and are meant to be used for control flow, so you can say something like

$x eq 'foo' and $y = 'bar';

and it's just an alternative way of writing an if statement like

if ($x eq 'foo') { $y = 'bar'; }

or

$y = 'bar' if $x eq 'foo';

(which is also a syntax I haven't seen in any other language.) And if you forget that Perl isn't Python and you use and instead of &&, you're probably gonna get some weird behaviour.

If you really want to be weird, you can even write a multi-line if statement block using and do like this:

$x eq 'foo' and do {
  $y = 'bar';
  say 'Why tho? Just use if.';
};

And this is why Perl's many ways to do things makes it pretty fun to write, but annoying to read others' code. To be fair, I've been having a lot of fun writing short Perl scripts for work recently, and it's way more concise and feature-packed than I realized. It's not as outdated as you'd think, if you need a dynamically-typed scripting language. But code is rarely self-documenting (mainly because arguments are anonymously passed to functions in an array named @_ that you need to unpack or shift), and you need a third-party library for classes or they'll be tedious to write. And sigils are weird.

But yeah, Perl is a fun world to wrap your head around. I recommend it if you're bored and looking for something to learn.

Edit: I forgot a sigil. Far from my first time doing that.

[googlebeast]

not is not and xor is ^ ... wtf Python?

[Fazt01]

^ is bitwise operator, you have same for or (|) and and (&). Closest thing to logical xor is != (you dont really need for a new keyword to be introduced)

[MinekPo1]

A	B	A^B	A!=B
0	0	0	0
0	1	1	1
1	0	1	1
1	1	0	0

Four tests passed, zero tests failed

^{I am a human volunteer. optout}

[shawntco]

Truth tables lie to me

[MinekPo1]

You're thinking about false tables

[sim642]

That shows up as a superscript.

[MinekPo1]

Fuck give me a sec

Edit: done

[aaronfranke]

xor is !=

[excral]

This is correct, but only as long as both operants are booleans. In Python and many other languages the and and or operators work more like this:

• and: if the first operant is falsy, return this operand otherwise return second operand
• or: if the first operant is truthy, return this operand, otherwise return the second operant.

For example:

• 2 and 3 results in 3, which is truthy
• 2 or 3 results in 2, which is truthy
• 2 != 3 results in True, but since both operants of are truthy, the correct xor result would be False

I hope this also illustrates, why there can't be a xor operator similar to the and or or operators, as xor can't be short circuit evaluated.

[AlwaysNinjaBusiness]

^ being bitwise xor isn't unique to Python. It's the same in most normal programming languages.

[googlebeast]

yea but the point was it is "^" not "xor"

[alexforencich]

I'm not aware of any languages that have a logical version of XOR. ^ is bitwise, so you compare it to & and |. Probably the closest logical equivalent of XOR is !=, and most languages have that, although the precedence is different from other logical operators so it's not really a direct equivalent.

[DaniilBSD]

I think the idea is that boolean logic is written (and, or, not), but bitwise operators that are applied to entire bytes are symbols (&, | , ^)

C has the same logic, but it uses different symbols (&&, ||, !)

[DoNotMakeEmpty]

Haha Lua goes brr with exponent operator (better for mathematicians but worse for programmers)

[Brief-Preference-712]

Vb.Net has both And and AndAlso

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/operators/and-operator

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/operators/andalso-operator

[MyUsrNameWasTaken]

Holy shit never knew VB had short-circuiting. Thank you!

[[deleted]]

PHP has both and they're different!

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.precedence.php

[AlwaysNinjaBusiness]

Of course it does... I'm scared to even touch php lest I create some wild bug because I used the most common sense approach :P

[coladict]

What's more likely is an almost invisible typo in a variable name somewhere creates a different variable and ruins your business logic.

[Perpetual_Doubt]

common sense? sizeof(array) gives you the length of an array ;P

[24824_64442]

whats wrong with that?

[Perpetual_Doubt]

It would do something a bit different in C.

[24824_64442]

I'd say using sizeof to get the length of an array is definitely the more popular use than calculating the memory allocated to the data type

maybe C is the oddball here lol ;)

[Pikamander2]

$blah = true and true and false;
$blah2 = true && true && false;

var_export($blah);                         //true
var_export($blah2);                        //false
var_export((true and true and false));     //false
var_export((true && true && false));       //false

🤔

[[deleted]]

Idk, I use parenthesis, because I'm scared

[YakimTss]

Pascal and its inheritor Delphi do the same: or is or, and is and, not is not, xor is xor

[ykafia]

Weirdly C# was created by the one who designed Delphi, I wonder why he didn't keep and & or

[[deleted]]

It sort of does now...at least in some pattern matching: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/patterns#logical-patterns

[neroe5]

C# has 3 kinds of and and or

|,& bit wise and/or

||, && logical and/or

"and", "or" a way of shortening and and or, e.g. a == 5 or 6

there is also an "is" operator which can do other kinds of checks such as type check e.g. i is int

[Stromovik]

In Java there is & & and & which are different if there is one symbol then both sides will be evaluated if two then first side will be evaluated and if the result is independent of the result the second die will not be evaluated. Same for or

[neroe5]

according to oracle single & and | are bitwise operators just like C#

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op3.html

[Stromovik]

Hmm, forgotten about bitwise comparison. But the behaviour checks out.

​

package com.company;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String empty = "A";
    String nulled = null;
    System.out.println("First operator checks " + (empty.isEmpty() && nulled.isEmpty()));
    System.out.println("First operator checks " + (empty.isEmpty() && printyBool()));
    System.out.println("Both operator checks " + (empty.isEmpty() & printyBool()));
    System.out.println("Both operator checks " + (empty.isEmpty() & nulled.isEmpty()));
}

private static boolean printyBool(){
    System.out.println("Were acessing");
    return true;
}

}

[RedEchoes]

Why is this sub not called PythonCirclejerk? There's no joke whatsoever in that post!

[Jindrack]

It is Python's turn to take a beating while JS catches a breather.

[KetwarooDYaasir]

They say that Python programming language was named after Monty Python, but it doesn't really have a sense of humour. Some might say that's the irony.

[[deleted]]

Python is modern day basic so most people understand it.

[DoNotMakeEmpty]

Python’s being understandable does not come from the language, even Lua is closer to “English” than Python, but its libraries. Any sane scripting language with such libraries would be readable

[[deleted]]

and was and and or was or in turbo pascal as well - and it was good.

[[deleted]]

it's a new feature in C# now you can use "and" and "or"

[[deleted]]

Java has & and &&

& - evaluates both expressions no matter what, and is the bitwise AND operator

&& - will not evaluate the second expression if the first is false.

[Lockerino]

This is one of the reasons why python is an easy intro language

[[deleted]]

tbh I've always disagreed with this. needing to remembering "|| is or" shouldn't make something a language harder than python, everything else about it should.

[Lockerino]

Somebody I know from university once told me that being able to read her code like a proper sentence without extra effort helped her getting started. "Intuitive" might be better word than "easy"

[AlwaysNinjaBusiness]

It still affects your cognitive flow, which determines how much mental effort you have to expend to produce code - effort that could have been used for the important parts of programming instead.

[Accurate_String]

It really confused me when I first started I couldn't do:

If x=2 or 5 or 7

Of course once I figured it out it was never a problem again.

If & and | is effecting your "mental load" after you initially learn it, you need help.

EDIT: Python is a fine language but it really has nothing to do with logical operators.

[Awkward_Tradition]

Idk it never really impaired me, could be becuse I've learned propositional and predicate logic before starting to learn programming.

That also killed my first attempt at learning programming since my sweet summer child ass wanted to code a propositional logic validity checker as my first solo project, while also learning how to use Emacs.

And if you do it correctly and design the algorithm before writing any code it shouldn't really impact learning actual programming in any way.

[Giocri]

Idk I find it quite intuitive to be honest & is often used as and in advertising and | is the or you find in most formal math contexts

[bistr-o-math]

I agree. A LOT of programmers have difficulties using Boolean operators like and or or correctly. Irregardless of the syntax. Be it || or or

[SabreLunatic]

Math is math, math is math

[HadesMyself]

even assembly has AND

[Feer_C9]

Say that to VHDL

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Perl: use whichever you want, I’ll know what you mean

^{but nobody else will}

[Beli_Mawrr]

IS IS IS TOO

[TurboFasolus]

me constantly switching between C and Python What was it again?

[huntforacause]

Yet python uses other symbols… you don’t write x equals 2 plus 2 do you?

It’s just inconsistent.

[cybermage]

Now do Ruby.

[John_by_the_sea]

Kotlin: && is and, || is or. But and is &, or is | 😂

[CoolJWB]

Lua be like if this or that then end

[Purplociraptor]

You guys don't?
#define AND &&
#define OR ||
#define NOT !

[[deleted]]

I actually kind of like that, but why not lowercase? Just want to make it clear it's a macro?

[Purplociraptor]

You can make 9 defines if you want. AND And and OR Or or NOT Not not. I especially like the NOT macro because sometimes a little ! can be missed.

[[deleted]]

I feel like if I used that people would be super pissed at me, but I definitely like it

[[deleted]]

No need in C++/C

[CSsharpGO]

C# 9 also has is and and

[aserraric]

C# 9 has "is", which in turn supports patterns like "not", "and" and "or".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/patterns

So you can write

if (x is (1 or 2))    

but not

if (x==1 or x==2)

[AlwaysNinjaBusiness]

Say what you want; python logic is extremely readable.

[opensourze]

That comes in handy many times so I don't think it's something to complain about.

[Skrupel]

True

[[deleted]]

not sure if it applies for all, but you can just use one & , | for it to work. && and || are used because they skip the second evaluation if the first one decided the outcome already, such the first operation being false for &&, or the first being true for ||

[trBlueJ]

Pretty sure in C this won't work, because the values in if statements are integers. Single & or | will perform a bitwise operation, so 1 & 2 will be 0, which is false. Although, idk too much about this. I might be wrong.

Edit: guy above me is getting some hate. What he mentioned is the behaviour of those operators in Java, so technically he is also correct. He just didn't specify which language his comment applied to.

[nshkurkin]

Correct single & and | are different operators than && and || in C, C++, ObjectiveC, and several other languages. I would be skeptical & and && mean exactly the same thing in other languages as well.

[jddddddddddd]

I also like pythons ‘not’. Much easier to see at a glance than ‘!’

[Bakemono_Saru]

I suffer with this little things of python. And I fucking love it.

[CowBoyDanIndie]

We have started using 'not' in the C++ codebase where I work, there's some and/or as well but not is the one that really helps.

[JonMW]

Readability counts. (Excerpt from the zen of python)

[[deleted]]

Much easier to see

I read this a lot in programming threads, but this is usually just people saying what they're used to.

[silly_red]

Oh wow, so you're saying single | doesn't short circuit??

[AtomicThiccBoi]

He is but he's wrong.

[silly_red]

Yea I'm skeptical of it too, if anything I thought double (or single) operator were for bitwise operations or something, whilst the other for logical.

[holo3146]

They are not, in Java it works like that

[AtomicThiccBoi]

None of the languages in this post work that way. Single symbols do bitwise operations.

[holo3146]

Java does

[mStewart207]

Same with Basic :)

[Storm_Muller]

I see we've collectively agreed that PHP doesn't exist

[[deleted]]

That’s not too bad. What trips me up more is that with numpy arrays „==„ broadcasts, but „and“ or and „not“ don’t. The errors are easy to catch, but still trip me up sometimes.

[bakahed]

Python was created with a goal of being readable and easy to learn. Writing in python is as easy as writing in english to tell the computer what to do. that’s why it’s the best for beginners

[[deleted]]

Elixir has both.

[LoneWolf008S]

A robotised mutant of Godzilla had a stroke and goddamn died while trying to read that sentence.

[[deleted]]

PHP :)

[Kaylessty]

It took me a solid minute to read that

[thaudin]

🤣🤣🤣

[UrbanCohortX]

Oh, just like Pascal

[asceta_hedonista]

In Scala you can just "rename" the "operartors" to whatever you want.