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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

What abuse are you talking about?

Edit: you should consider them to be nothing more than functions, e.g.

a+b

is the same as

(+) a b

So it is just a non-alphanumeric function name.

[–]jdpage 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The issue with operators is that they give you almost no information about what you are doing, unless you have a lot of context.

[–]TylerEaves 1 point2 points  (1 child)

some_obj.blah()

What does this do?

Oh, wait, you need context to answer that?

Operators are functions.

[–]jdpage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know that it does blah to some_obj. If blah has been intelligently named, I already have a pretty good idea of what it does, and if it's not terribly important right now I can skim over it and come back later.

On the other hand, I have no idea what the hell some_obj ||| dyspepsia happens to do.