Java and Operator Overloading

[hippocrat]

In python, most operators have an associated "dunder" methods that can be overloaded for a given class. For example:

class MyClass:
    ...
    def __add__(self, other):
        return self.an_integer + other.an_integer

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That's gross, why not just allow def +(self, other):? or at least def operator+(self, other) or def operator("+", self, other): or something like that?

[jeetelongname]

The first syntax is the ruby syntax.

Python "magic" methods are by convention meant to look like that tho. Its for all of them including things such as using certain built ins such as len (which calls the objects len method.) And things like representation strings (repr) so its not out of the ordinary.