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Love the idea, definitely will use. But wondering why it's using ">>". I'm not great with Python. How does this ">>" thing work and why does it make sense to a

• aidos 4y ago
  Python has dunder methods that allow you to override behaviour (eg operator overloading, hashing, object identity etc). In this case they’re overriding bitshifting. In terms of why, it does feel like a natural visual choice. https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams/blob/master/diagrams/__init__.py#L346 https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams/blob/master/diagrams/...
  • AtlasBarfed 4y ago
    operator overloading. One of the great holy wars of PL. Of course C++ has it, and it is one of the great footguns in its arsenal.
    • aidos 4y ago
      With great power comes great responsibility.